> I’ve also been able to radically reduce my dependency on third-party libraries in my JavaScript and Python projects. I often use LLMs to generate small utility functions that previously required pulling in dependencies from NPM or PyPI.

This is such an interesting statement to me in the context of leftpad.

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rpowers a day ago | parent [-]

I'm imagining the amount of energy required to power the datacenter so that we can produce isEven() utility methods.

	▲	BoredomIsFun 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You could always run local on your 5060ti.
	▲	righthand a day ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Also, neither over the wire dependency issues or code injection issues (the two major criticisms) are solved by using an llm to produce the code. Talk about shifting complexity. It would be better if every LSP had a general utility library generator built in.
	▲	nefarious_ends a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		we need a caching layer