alt Hacker NewsIf you did implement it yourself, you might have spotted a critical point that might simplify the whole thing...
This is the "Jodie Foster in Contact listening for the SETI signal with headphones" theory of how production software systems work.
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stack_framer • yesterday at 6:51 PM
And yet, continuing your analogy, she made an amazing discovery this way.
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There have been multiple points in my career where I framed a problem as simple in my head, and it mostly was.
But then, one small detail changed everything. And it wasn't something I'd have thought of until I was writing the code.
I shudder thinking about the number of these issues hiding in LLM-generated code.