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vips7Ltoday at 3:13 PM1 replyview on HN

I've noticed this a lot in LLM generated Java. Since it doesn't know what can or can't be null it tends to wrap everything in Optional<T>. Super strong type systems are becoming even more important.


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hedoratoday at 3:47 PM

You probably need to tell it to rip as many of those out as possible (and replace them with null annotations).

I've noticed LLMs sometimes pick a documented anti-pattern (passing Optional around in Java is not recommended), then amplify it (like a human might).

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