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fasterik • yesterday at 8:50 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Don't get me wrong, LLMs are way better than me at most things, but I don't think you can deny that the current generation of models makes questionable decisions sometimes. Especially on project structure, API boundaries, and code duplication. I also think they just have bad taste in general, though of course that's more subjective.


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tokioyoyo • yesterday at 9:29 PM

I’m not sure how to say this without sounding smug, but the last year has shown that most of those things just… don’t matter. It’s just the next level of the “variable naming PR comment battle”, so will become obsolete very soon.

Obviously there are mission critical systems where it matters, but if “your code can be A/B tested” or “slowly rolled out”, chances are, it doesn’t matter.

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trio8453 • yesterday at 9:00 PM

> I don't think you can deny that the current generation of models makes questionable decisions sometimes

Sometimes, not enough to believe you that you can do it better. And even if you could, to believe that it's overall worth it to work in that way.

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