alt Hacker NewsYep and after 6 hours don't reach for LLM, instead:
* Ask someone to come over and look
* Come back the next day, work on something else
* Add comment # KNOWN-ISSUE: ...., and move on and forget about it.
But year spent days on a bug at work before ha ha!
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justonceokay • yesterday at 10:12 PM
You say this as if the LLM isn’t committing things it doesn’t even recognize as bugs if you don’t babysit it. I’d rather have a codebase with a few very well marked evil zones, rather than a codebase no one has read. All code contains demons and it’s good to have an understanding of their locations and relative power
calvinmorrison • yesterday at 11:37 PM
so many eureka moments of mine were simply sitty on the MTA
> Come back the next day, work on something else
This is a tried and true way of working on puzzles and other hard problems.
I generally have 2-4 important things in flight, so I find myself doing this a lot when I get stuck.