alt Hacker NewsI wonder what went so wrong that "if you don't understand [thing] you shouldn't be building [thing]" is now considered a controversial statement.
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Keep in mind these are two different things. Not all websites need to be accessible.
That's not what I said, I said I likely understand it less than a 635B parameter LLM, and that using the LLM as a shortcut to that knowledge is something I'd consider perfectly acceptable. I might even become better at it through using the LLM.
Well, there's degrees of understanding, as well as degrees of seriousness of the project. You can also learn a lot by building something.
Some people are writing the Netflix homepage (where an outage costs millions of dollars), and some people are writing a blog for three readers.
If you're building bridges, this shouldn't be a controversial statement. Same if you're building cryptography software.
It's debatable if the same should apply to the vast majority of software that is less critical.