But what's the point of re-building "standard software" if it is so standard that it already exists 100 times in the training data with slight variations?

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baxtr an hour ago | parent | next [-]

See here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47435808

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ChrisGreenHeur 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The point is the small variations

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lynx97 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I read this attitude very often on HN. "If someone else has already built it before, your effort is a waste of time." To me, it has this "Someone else already makes money from it, go somewhere else where you dont have competition." Well, I get the drift... But... Not everyone is into getting rich. You know, some of us just have fun building things and learning while doing so. It really doesn't matter if the path has been walked before. Not everything has to be plain novelty to count.

	▲	loveparade 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If you do it for fun then why do you care whether an LLM can do it well or not, which was the original argument? Shouldn't matter to you in that case.