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dtagamestoday at 3:12 PM3 repliesview on HN

And in #27 we find the rationale behind all LLM coding agents, "Once you understand how a program works, get someone else to write it for you."


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hugo0vaztoday at 3:55 PM

I think you misunderstood what the phrase actually means. You can only successfully manage or outsource a process once you understand it well enough to explain it. Therefore, most of the people doing agentic engineering are not following this Perlisim.

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fharstoday at 5:12 PM

The actual prescient LLM quote is "7. It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one."

summa_techtoday at 4:09 PM

Once you understand how a program works, get someone else to write it for you. Then, you will quickly find out your understanding was insufficient.

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