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While I applaud the result, it's again one of the thing that would be a quick script if it were only for my personal usage. Because I wouldn't bother with making it user friendly as I'm the single user.

The kind of project I work on is more like this: Build an Android app for a quiz game. The quiz takes a list of random question from a set. Each set is a package that can be installed and upgraded when online. While the app is free, there is an activation code to be able to download the main packages. The app should work offline except for the activation and downloading packages. It also should notify when a new version is ready for a package. etc...

I don't know if LLMs could have helped me at the time (pre 2020), but I doubt it. Not because the code was complex, but mostly how cohesive the whole thing should be while taking care they're not tightly coupled and be maintainable by a single person. The IDE was a great helper once I got the design and the architecture outlined, mostly because it was deterministic and I already know what the end result should be.



GPT-3 came out in early 2020, prior to that we had just GPT-2 which was mildly interesting at best but not something that could generate usable code.

The best current LLMs GPT-4o, Gemini 1.5 Pro, Claude 3.5 Sonnet - are just about at the point now where I'd expect them to be able to get a useful chunk of your Android spec there done. Which is pretty wild!




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