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skydhash05/15/20252 repliesview on HN

Or you could just read the PPP RFC [0].

I’m not saying that your approach is wrong. But most LLM workflows are either brute forcing the solution, or seeking a local minima to be stuck in. It’s like doing thousands of experiments of objects falling to figure out gravity while there’s a physics textbooks nearby.

[0]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1661


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olalonde05/15/2025

Ironically, I could’ve read all 50 pages of that RFC and still missed the actual issue. What really helped was RFC 1331[0], specifically the "Async-Control-Character-Map" section.

That said, I’m building a product - not a PPP driver - so the quicker I can fix the problem and move on, the better.

[0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1331

wrasee05/15/2025

I could also walk everywhere, but sometimes technology can help.

There’s no way I could fully read that RFC in an hour. And that’s before you even know what reading to focus your attention on, so you’re just being a worse LLM at that point.

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