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If you can't fix them without LLMs, then you can't fix them. You probably shouldn't be trusted with maintaining the codebase in the first place.
by gspr 3mo ago
If you can't fix them without LLMs, then you can't fix them. You probably shouldn't be trusted with maintaining the codebase in the first place.
- simonw 3mo agoHow about if you don't have time to fix them without LLMs?
- gspr 3mo agoThen you don't have time to maintain the codebase. Sad, but sometimes true.
- simonw 3mo agoWelcome to volunteer-driven open source. (Update: you're a Debian developer so you're even more familiar with how that world works than I am.)
- sscaryterry 3mo agoWhen given the choice between putting food on the table, and being a purist, I'd take some bread. It is hard out there.
- gspr 3mo agoSure. I did not mean to throw shade at people whose professional survival depends on doing this. I'm merely trying to establish that it's bad. A lot of HN seems to be cheering for the badness. That is, to me, unfathomable.
- sscaryterry 3mo agoYou are trying to establish that it is bad based on your beliefs. I've pointed out to you that LLMs are forced onto people. I fear you are out of touch with the job market requirements of 2026.
- gspr 3mo agoHuh? You can accept things that are forced onto you, due to needing to earn a living, while still acknowledging that the things that are forced onto you are bad. All I'm trying to say here is that slopcode is generally a bad idea. If you are forced to slopcode to earn a living, I am not saying you shouldn't do that ("be a purist", as you'd put it). I'm just trying to point out that HN doesn't seem to generally acknowledge that concept as being bad.
- sscaryterry 3mo agoI think it is much too early to outright say it is bad. Very few things are trivial enough to classify in a binary way as in bad or good. Slop is not okay, this isn't disputed. When you say "If you are forced to slopcode" you are implying that LLMs (or humans who operate the tools) can only produce slop with it.
- gspr 3mo ago> When you say "If you are forced to slopcode" you are implying that LLMs (or humans who operate the tools) can only produce slop with it. No.
- sscaryterry 3mo agoFair enough. Honestly, nobody is "forced" to slopcode, this is the human's decision, no?
- gspr 3mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48767422 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48767422
- sscaryterry 3mo ago!Purist != Slopper Just because you are forced to use an LLM, does not mean you can only produce slop.