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_benjtoday at 11:28 AM1 replyview on HN

This resonates with me. The concept of cig it I've debt was something I've been experiencing but didn't have a name for it.

I think it is worth noting that not all code is equal... One could argue that adding a library is in some ways similar to copy/pasting code in as much as, one doesn't know what the code is doing, and yet that doesn't leave me with a sense of unease!

So it might be that as I'm working with an LLM there are parts (boring, as the author calls them) that are not worth "knowing" how they work, something uninteresting or that a correct output is all that us needed, I'm totally fine having the agent write that code, but the sections I need to know how they work, I think it might make sense to write those by hand!


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pritambaraltoday at 11:35 AM

> One could argue that adding a library is in some ways similar to copy/pasting code in as much as, one doesn't know what the code is doing, and yet that doesn't leave me with a sense of unease!

It does, to me. Been burned enough times that I now, at minimum, audit the source code of third-party libraries before I use them.

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