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geraneumtoday at 4:12 AM0 repliesview on HN

> An LLM defaults to building when it should be buying. Not because it doesn’t know about existing libraries, it often mentions them, but because for an LLM, writing two hundred lines of implementation is the same cognitive effort as writing two lines of import.

Or maybe they are trained that way. It’s more tokens used and more money you need to pay.