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Comment by dale_glass

You can always exercise decision making.

Realistically, people do a lot of Googling "parse Json in Python" and going with whatever pops out, like "import json" probably. But there's other options out there.

With a LLM, you're almost certainly also going to get the standard json module if you just ask for a JSON parser.

But nobody says you have to stop there. For instance if I say I want "the fastest JSON module", it goes for orgjson instead.

And if I wasn't happy with that, I could ask it to just write a benchmark using every module available and actually measure what's optimal for my hardware and my data file.

Choices don't go anywhere, and a smart user can take advantage to evaluate possibilities for whatever factors might matter -- speed, size, number of dependencies, etc. I'd say smartly used LLMs make for better choices because you can do research much more easily. Benchmarks, prototypes, asking it to search for you whether a given library has a good reputation or not and is well maintained, etc.

parent dale_glass 6 days ago

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