I removed the LLM call and replaced it with 200 lines of template code
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The feature was a letter generator. Somebody fills in a few fields and gets a finished letter of recommendation, resignation letter or notice letter, in plain text, ready to paste into an email. The obvious build is a prompt and a model call. I wrote the deterministic version instead: a pure functi…
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- 2026-08-25 12:11 · DEV Community — AI
I removed the LLM call and replaced it with 200 lines of template code