It’s a special kind of happiness when one can one-shot an app/script. That is, write a single prompt that a capable LLM can use to deliver the whole thing in a single attempt.
For me, the feelings follow this trajectory: smugness that my single prompt actually worked, then a light dusting of shame, because in ye olden days this code would have been artisanally handcrafted by me, and finally happiness, as I got a working piece of code in ~10 minutes, rather than a full weekend.
Here’s a one-shot from yesterday that made me fairly happy. I was …