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Comment · 12 days ago
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
Comment · 12 days ago
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.
Comment · 19 days ago
This is all doctors. Not just dentists
Comment · 20 days ago
Having a prompt specific enough to resolve all the coin flips is just writing the code yourself
Comment · 1 month ago
If I want to read a post about an NFC business card written by ChatGPT, I can ask it myself
Comment · 1 month ago
I stopped at this line too. My AI detector is too bad right now
Comment · 2 months ago
Yea I had to stop reading after a paragraph or two
Comment · 2 months ago
Mouse capture works in chrome but not safari for me
Comment · 2 months ago
How do I turn the camera? Stuck with a single perspective.
Comment · 2 months ago
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.
Comment · 2 months ago
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.

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Comment · 2 months ago
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.
Comment · 2 months ago
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
Comment · 2 months ago
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.

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