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I also don’t understand the appeal. I never wrote boilerplate code in my life. I recently spent the whole day debugging open source third parties on multiple O
by JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 2y ago
I also don’t understand the appeal. I never wrote boilerplate code in my life.
I recently spent the whole day debugging open source third parties on multiple OSes while using Wireshark to understand how the whole thing worked. Then I typed 5 lines for a fix in less than 30 seconds. How would an LLM help me here?
- dartos 2y ago> I never wrote boilerplate code in my life. You either have not written very much code, don’t know what boilerplate means, or are intentionally operating under an overly broad definition
- JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 2y agoYou’re right. I don’t write a lot of code. It’s always very specific C++ stuff that does not need to be repeated a hundred times, or if it is it can be a virtual method declaration that I copy in a subclass. No need for a LLM for that. I’ve only seen boilerplate used by web developers, but I’m not doing that.
- dartos 2y agoYou shouldn’t speak so confidently and condescendingly with so little experience. Graphics programming, data science, anything involving handling user input and probably many more classes of software require ceremony and boilerplate to get going. Vulkan famously takes 1000 lines of C++ boilerplate before you can draw a triangle. Look into writing a X or Wayland compositor and you’ll see a mountain of boilerplate involved in handling input loops, displays, and communicating with the kernel.