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It's not 50 lines of code if all the real work is done by importing a library... That's like saying, I can solve any problem in 2 lines of code. I'll publish a
by lopkeny12ko 3y ago
It's not 50 lines of code if all the real work is done by importing a library...
That's like saying, I can solve any problem in 2 lines of code. I'll publish a library for it first, then:
import foo; foo.do_the_thing()
Magic!
- therealdrag0 3y ago[relevant xkcd]
- antonvs 3y agoSoftware developers hate this one simple trick!
- peab 3y agodid people say the same thing when assembly code got abstracted away?
- orblivion 3y agoThere's levels of abstraction. "lines of Python" to me roughly means the standard library.
- sciolist 3y agoAgreed. If it was "RLHF a LLM in <50 lines" I feel it would be clear, but "lines of Python" implies something different.
- skelpmargyar 3y agoImporting a library is not abstraction any more than closing your eyes is abstracting the world to black.
- __loam 3y agoThe point of libraries is abstraction. You get to use the library without writing the library or knowing the underlying implementation.