| ▲ | dtagames 6 hours ago |
| And in #27 we find the rationale behind all LLM coding agents, "Once you understand how a program works, get someone else to write it for you." |
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| ▲ | hugo0vaz 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I think you misunderstood what the phrase actually means. You can only successfully manage or outsource a process once you understand it well enough to explain it. Therefore, most of the people doing agentic engineering are not following this Perlisim. |
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| ▲ | dtagames 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Oh, that's exactly what I meant, except its corollary. People who do understand how software works should absolutely be having agents code it. And we do. | | |
| ▲ | skydhash 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | > People who do understand how software works should absolutely be having agents code it. I don’t think there’s such people. Either you’re writing a software for the first time and so the premise is not true. Or you’re writing it a second time and what would be the point? Just reuse the code you already have. | | |
| ▲ | dtagames an hour ago | parent [-] | | There are lots of people who understand how software works, including the fact that every line of code is new or else you wouldn't need to write it. Personally, I love "philosophy of software" questions like these, especially in the AI era. I write quite a bit about this on Medium: https://medium.com/@mimixco |
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| ▲ | fhars 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The actual prescient LLM quote is "7. It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one." |
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| ▲ | summa_tech 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Once you understand how a program works, get someone else to write it for you. Then, you will quickly find out your understanding was insufficient. |
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