Developers Use LLMs To Reduce Cognitive Debt

Nathan Baschez on Twitter recommends asking an LLM to write two versions of a plan: a technical version for the model and an entertaining explanatory essay for the human. The author applied this by generating the diff between Showboat v0.5.0 and v0.6.0, then prompting Nano Banana Pro to create a webcomic explaining the remote publishing feature. The result was illustrative but not production-ready, useful as a thinking tool.
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Practical, actionable technique increases documentation clarity, but stems from individual anecdote with limited validation.
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- Read OriginalNano Banana Pro diff to webcomicsimonwillison.net


