Breaking mental coding barriers with LLMs

Today, I stepped a bit beyond my comfort zone. Usually, I prefer micro-managing LLMs when writing code. This time, I was macro-managing. I needed to create a mock history of the status of a manuscript, e.g. it was submitted on this date. THEN it moved to this state on this date. THEN … etc. I have no idea what the states could be, though. So, I could send it to an LLM, and it would give a different set of states each time. Or I could write a program and lose out on variety. ...