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By definition an LLM is unable to build what has never been built before because you are going outside the realm of pretraining/RL. You might be able to combine components that already exist in a unique way, but even then you will be fighting against the mediocre making effect of LLMs

Good writeup and framing. I agree with this although I've always framed it differently. I've always thought that I just have to put myself in what's very situation and I'll figure it out on the way.

This is all doctors. Not just dentists

Having a prompt specific enough to resolve all the coin flips is just writing the code yourself

If I want to read a post about an NFC business card written by ChatGPT, I can ask it myself

I stopped at this line too. My AI detector is too bad right now

Yea I had to stop reading after a paragraph or two

Mouse capture works in chrome but not safari for me

How do I turn the camera? Stuck with a single perspective.

Well I think the main important argument here is you shouldn't use the package management. A third party package manager would be even more concerning to use imo. I generally try to stay away from the typescript world so unfamiliar with nuances of NPM.

I don't think anyone is saying that you should depend on stale dependencies. You should not hand off your responsiblity to untrustworthy package managements services though. Evidence of the failure of automated package management is the near constant shai-hulud attacks as well as the originating post here.

The fact is that your dependencies are your responsibility. You should be staying up to date on what you depend on and their vulnerabilities. Most vulnerabilities affect specific code paths which may not be present in your code base and do not require mitigation. These are decisions you can make by understanding what your dependencies are instead of offloading to automated package management systems.

NPM has been the posterchild of these types of issues but the dependency stack I saw everytime I compiled even simple programs in Rust made me think Rust would be impacted next. Personally I think third party modules that are effectively universally used (axum, tokio, serde) should be integrated directly into the language.

Rust finally got hit... This was motivating me to swap away from Rust towards because of the huge number of dependencies. It seemed inevitable. Ginger bill was right, https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2025/09/08/package-manage...

Man good motivating schedule. Are you married as well? I notice this is missing the wife time. I feel like I really have to wreck my sleep to get worktime between wife and kids.

This article feels slightly incoherent. You want high quality precise writing and to use an LLM to generate it? Feels like those are diametrically opposed

I was also getting confused. No obvious marker to close card so I instinctively pressed back twice and got back to HN. Would try to keep exploring but I'll definitely forget and do it again.

Man this hit me right after discovering https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com. I feel like I need to start tracking thing I buy and how much I use them to really get a handle on my con00merism problem.

Yea this is a good one but it can be so hard. Seems obvious that constant information streaming outside of silencing your own thoughts also makes the moments where you do have to sit in silence lower quality.

I recently listened to the Hammock Driven Development talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc) and it raises the very interesting point that it's not really the concious mind that makes big breakthroughs on hard problems, it's mainly the subconcious mind synthesizing information. It seems obvious to me that constantly intaking information will ruin this synthesization.

Sadly for some reason our brain loves filling the silence with junk...

Comparing LLM output to compiler output is such a stale meme by now that it's surprising to see people still saying it. Obviously a deterministic translation of a higher level programming language to machine code is different than the slop cannon.

It does somewhat depend on the application size. Seems to me that for regular software projects (that aren't enterprise SaaS) a good programmer will create better software than Claude. Maybe the dehumanizing way to say it is that humans have more efficient/improved retrieval. The amount of time I see repeat code for no reason, or code/context that has been obviously missed is absurd.

This is so sick. I'm almost convincing myself to get it but I feel like I would really miss my 36% keyboard with multiple layers too much. Still tho...

Whether data-centers and AI are actually beneficial is still somewhat of an open question with large groups on both sides. So unclear how beneficial data centers are to the general public.

This was going to be my reply. Can't let them get ahead of you too quick.

Do you actually believe this? This is pretty similar to people that think free will is fake. For example:

>In fact, I strongly suspect that i am merely a statistical machine picking words from a learned distribution.

This is a completely incoherent statement (which maybe supports your point). How can you suspect that you are a statistical machine? The fact that there is a "you" suspecting disproves the premise.

Yea after a couple of paragraphs I had to stop

I disagree. A good developer that heavily uses AI just becomes average without realizing it. To remain a good programmer you have to keep actually programming.

Has an issue where the last fishes fight shows up during the wait for the current fishes fight. More importantly how can you afford this? Seems like every call goes to an LLM? Seems like it would be pretty expensive for a free game.

I definitely support maintainers defending themselves but this seemed just like a petty slap at LLM users. From my understanding, any user who used this testing library was vulnerable to the prompt injection.

Overall LLMs are certainly a net negative on humanity, but I don’t think being mad about it or their users is the best response. I really respect Andrew Kelly in this regard. He doesn’t accept LLM input into Zig and is generally anti-LLM but his approach is positive. “LLMs aren’t that good and it’s boring to use them. Check out how cool/fun/high quality real coding is”

Yea good explanation of what I meant. I understand the moral/ethical arguments against LLMs and they are compelling but the actions of the maintainer above seemed just like a petty swing at LLMs just for the sake of it. Not very rational in my opinion.

I’m trying to minimize my use of LLMs because I think they are harmful personally but I don’t get mad at people that use them (unless they are just spamming slop but then I just ignore it)

I don’t think so but maybe? I do use them in daily work so I might be compromised. But I also generally dislike their impact on humanity and try to limit my use where feasible for my own brain’s sake.

Personally I think Andrew Kelly’s take is the best. Basically not interested in LLMs but if someone uses them to do something cool then cool I guess?

I can’t remember where I read or watched this, but the argument was that the main problem with a lot of software is simply code base size. Once your code base is large enough , it can no longer really be understood as a whole which leads to performance issues/bugs/vulnerabilties. I think that’s just an unavoidable part of large software.

Agentic engineering is probably not helping since it tends to accelerate growth of LOC. I also personally think quality is an issue as well but it could be a skill issue on my end idk.