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Is it the problem? Most of the time I’ve coded something is because the code I found did not solve the problem according to my needs. There’s a plethora of musi
by skydhash 3y ago
Is it the problem? Most of the time I’ve coded something is because the code I found did not solve the problem according to my needs. There’s a plethora of music players, but no one is alike. That’s because the domain of music playing is vast and each developer had to compromise to find something that can work for him.
- 93po 3y agoIf you make a VLC clone from scratch but intended to be used for kiosks, the mixture of features and how it operates may be different, but the individual features have assuredly already been programmed elsewhere before. Which is basically my point. It still basically renders video on a screen, and maybe has options to play/pause/mute/etc. Most websites are CRUD apps with stuff that's been done literally a million times before. Yes, some people do novel problem solving with software. But it's super rare in the grand scheme of the millions of people in the world who program.
- mkleczek 3y agoWhat you are describing is a pipe dream of software reuse. People try to do it from the very beginning of IT industry with mixed results. The devil is in the details - your mixture of features is different than mine. We have constant upgrade of video codecs that offer more capabilities. We have unavoidable security issues that need to be somehow addressed (by version upgrades or replacing some components). Etc, etc, etc... IMO it is quite arrogant to claim "all problems are the same problem" - they are not even though they might look similar.
- 93po 3y agoI agree that the premise of software reuse with humans is not realistic. However my point being that an LLM trained on the entirety of available code could realistically mix and match features across different pieces of software and build something cohesive