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solumunus 8 hours ago

> make use of existing code, or be clever and replace a few lines of code with a few more lines of code

You can be explicit about these things.

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auggierose 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes. It is called programming.

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solumunus 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Using agents is programming. Programming is done with the mind, the tapping of keys isn’t inherent to the process.

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batshit_beaver 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Unfortunately IDEs are not yet directly connected to our minds, so there's still that silly little step of encoding your ideas in a way that can be compiled into binary. Playing the broken telephone game with an LLM is not always the most efficient way of explaining things to a computer.

	▲	solumunus an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Of course not. It’s a tool.