alt Hacker NewsI hear you. But removing boilerplate via abstraction (Lisp) is very different from generating it on demand (LLMs). The former is obviously qualitatively better. But it requires up front design, implementation testing etc. The latter is qualitatively insufficient, but it gets you there with very little effort plus some manual fixes.
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kazinator • yesterday at 2:51 PM
But LLMs can help with the former too.
> The latter is qualitatively insufficient, but it gets you there with very little effort plus some manual fixes.
I remember years ago, when I worked at a large PC OEM, I had a conversation with one of our quality managers -- if an updated business process consumes half the resources, but fails twice as often, have you improved your efficiency, or just broken even?
"Qualitatively insufficient, but gets you there" sounds like a contradiction in terms, assuming "there" is a well-defined end state you're trying to achieve within equally well-defined control limits.