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b40d-48b2-979e 2 days ago

    I realized at some point yesterday that these kinds of shortcuts would no longer be accepted
    with competent LLM use.
What a load of bullshit. LLMs cut corners constantly and only handle the happy path.
sunshowers 2 days ago | parent [-]

Right, when used incompetently. When used competently they can carefully reason through every edge case and flag things no human would have picked up on.

One example: in some old code I wrote I had assumed that the Rust Hash impl for a type is stable over time. This is not the case in general, but writing a custom hasher for a complex type is incredibly annoying, so I took that shortcut. That was fine for years, but came back to bite me this week as I was trying to update a dependency.

How much incidental complexity is due to that kind of thing? An LLM code review would flag this instantly, and one would also write a stable hash function for you.