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ModernMechtoday at 11:50 AM1 replyview on HN

This article [1] would argue ”no”, because then you would be ridding yourself of a “repository of determinism”, which the prompts cannot replace.

You can build a system with non-deterministic properties but you need some sort of deterministic foundation to build working, usable systems. Non determinism from top to bottom is building on quicksand in a swamp.

[1] https://www.oreilly.com/radar/can-language-models-replace-co...


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zephentoday at 12:24 PM

There are multiple reasons why binary repository managers like Artifactory exist.

And, arguably, the primary reason that perforce is still popular in some domains is that it works well with both large and opaque objects.

Once you've decided to version your src directory, whether a priori or because once bitten, twice shy, the next question is:

Is git the correct version control for this? Or are all the changes so large that git's advantages in merging and manually diffing things become irrelevant?