alt Hacker News> There are a million ways an app might remember my personal settings, as a simple example. SQLlite db, json file, ini, cloud storage, registry, etc. The specific implementation matters very little so long as it’s sane.
It may not matter if you’re just an end user. But if you’re the one deciding the tools to be used, you may wonder about consistency (sqlite is better than a json file or ini file), availability (local storage is better than a cloud service), security risks,… Trusting an LLM to take care of that looks like negligence to me.
> Trusting an LLM to take care of that looks like negligence to me.
You are of course entitled to hold your opinion. How to work with LLMs successfully will be determined by those who believe it’s possible rather than those who argue it’s fundamentally negligent, though.
The arguments against AI coding have rapidly evolved from “it’s not possible” to “it’s possible but breaks down as soon as the system gets complex” to this “it works but it’s negligent” argument. The industry will continue to move on.