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creeschtoday at 6:25 PM1 replyview on HN

Cool, but I fail to see how it is relevant in the context of the article? You clearly have the knowledge, expertise and discipline to incorporate LLM in a workflow that, taking your word for it, delivers a very good result.

That makes you a) more unique than you realize b) not all that relevant in the context of the article.

a) Because a lot of people tend to lean towards use that absolutely leads to atrophying of skills and knowledge. b) well the article does explain the criteria it used fairly well and your project would not show up there. Well, also because your project isn't an android app.


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lrvicktoday at 7:40 PM

An appliance Linux distribution without dependencies is way more complex than a typical android app and there is little prior art to train on.

Android apps on the other hand, LLMs have enough training data to rapidly generate whatever you can think of with much less time required for an experienced engineer to refine it into a quality result.

I am mostly pushing back on the notion of dismissing software as low quality just because the author used LLMs.

It is frankly amazing we can point an LLM at a proprietary ad-ridden app and get to an ad-free open source and privacy respecting clone in a weekend now.