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monster_truckyesterday at 12:31 AM1 replyview on HN

In this domain and others like it especially!

It's bone crushingly dry to try and figure this kind of shit out yourself, can do everything right according to every available reference and code comment only to get compiler and linker errors nobody has ever seen or posted about. Weeks and weeks of smashing your face against a wall until it gives. Now anyone can get twice as far in an evening. And that fuckin rules

Hard to not get a little hyperbolic about it... but I can't wait for everyone to exhaust their meme projects/ports and models to get just a bit better. Feels like we're about to have something of a golden age when everyone starts really making the stuff they've always wanted.


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MBCookyesterday at 2:33 AM

Plus you can point it at actual software or tests with known results and tell it to keep going until it gets it.