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japgollytoday at 1:42 AM2 repliesview on HN

It's about the feedback loop being so slow. Agents often compile and run tests to verify their work


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yxhuvudtoday at 10:02 AM

The fun part is that the argument holds just as true for humans that write code - we also run tests to verify our work!

Which is basically what people liking dynamic languages have said all the time - types is only good as long as the overhead they bring doesn't cost more.

timcobbtoday at 1:53 AM

Right, they run tests too. A compiler is like a quick test before tests. How are you going to cut out that check and let the LLM "write it faster" is beyond me. The compiler catches errors across codebases that today's LLM can't economically or reliably put into context to perform similar checks. They're totally different tools, today.

Also, you can just compile less frequently.

But hey, if LLMs are what drove this person from Haskell to Lisp then all the power to them!

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