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arcanemachineryesterday at 12:56 PM1 replyview on HN

I think the answer is not to debug the code, but, when possible, to debug the outputs. The code may be considered to be a black box much of the time. (This is much more true for my hobby projects than my work projects.)


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yosefkyesterday at 1:41 PM

...because your work projects are bigger, there's only so big a black box can get before you lose all comprehension of it, and splitting it to smaller black boxes the shapes of which you keep refining is programming, and the part of it LLMs currently can't do

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