If you have been following me on BlueSky or have read my recent posts here you will be aware I am a happy LLM user for coding projects.

I use Gemini for coding, a lot. When I tell some colleagues, they look at me like I’m out of my mind. I believe their reaction reveals a fundamental split in how we see our craft: the difference between the Journalist and the Poet.

During the writing (and rewriting) of my last two posts I had this idea: what if we could leverage LLMs for a closed-loop rewriting cycle?

I got some questions about how exactly did I use Gemini when creating a project, after posting my previous post. This is the answer.

A year ago I didn’t think much of LLMs for coding. Just glorified autocomplete at best, useful but just that. I have partially changed my mind, although I didn’t realise what was the difference until recently.