{"channel":"llm","content":"* The low-hanging fruit is having agents do things like type checking. (<red> there is no reason to *not* have your main codebase include type hints for JavaScript, Python, etc. any more.  On the other hand, there is no need to force developers to use them.  An agent can modify the pull request to add them.)\r\n* Having an agent take every \"Swift\" (<green> for an iOS app) app change, and apply it to \"Kotlin\" (<green> for an Android app), doesn't work extremely well.  And, as I have mentioned, the $20/month LLM subscriptions will work for an individual developer doing one version, but not for two (<red> or three with web; or four if you count documentation) versions of an app.\r\n* Audio generation is still expensive if you have an LLM API do it, and low-quality locally.  Neither the LLM nor non-LLM audio generation tools give high-quality output.  And, even \"gpt-4o-mini\" (<red> still the newest model in January 2026) has about a 1% error rate.","created_at":"2026-01-28T17:52:10.956799","id":738,"llm_annotations":{},"parent_id":null,"processed_content":"<ul>\n<li class=\"bullet-list\"> The low-hanging fruit is having agents do things like type checking. <span class=\"colorblock color-red\"><span class=\"sigil\">\ud83d\udca1</span><span class=\"colortext-content\"> there is no reason to <em>not</em> have your main codebase include type hints for JavaScript, Python, etc. any more.  On the other hand, there is no need to force developers to use them.  An agent can modify the pull request to add them.</span></span>\r</li>\n<li class=\"bullet-list\"> Having an agent take every \"Swift\" <span class=\"colorblock color-green\"><span class=\"sigil\">\u2699\ufe0f</span><span class=\"colortext-content\"> for an iOS app</span></span> app change, and apply it to \"Kotlin\" <span class=\"colorblock color-green\"><span class=\"sigil\">\u2699\ufe0f</span><span class=\"colortext-content\"> for an Android app</span></span>, doesn't work extremely well.  And, as I have mentioned, the $20/month LLM subscriptions will work for an individual developer doing one version, but not for two <span class=\"colorblock color-red\"><span class=\"sigil\">\ud83d\udca1</span><span class=\"colortext-content\"> or three with web; or four if you count documentation</span></span> versions of an app.\r</li>\n<li class=\"bullet-list\"> Audio generation is still expensive if you have an LLM API do it, and low-quality locally.  Neither the LLM nor non-LLM audio generation tools give high-quality output.  And, even \"gpt-4o-mini\" <span class=\"colorblock color-red\"><span class=\"sigil\">\ud83d\udca1</span><span class=\"colortext-content\"> still the newest model in January 2026</span></span> has about a 1% error rate.</li>\n</ul>","quotes":[],"subject":"thoughts on Trakaido development"}