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0 pointssanderjd9mo ago0 comments

That's all fine and good, but there is always boilerplate that you can't design away.

Even the most succinct cli command definition and argument parsing library you could devise is going to require a bunch of option name definition.

It's just a fool's errand to think you can stamp out everything that is tedious. It's great that we now have tools that can generate arbitrary code to bridge that gap.

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layer89mo ago

There are diminishing returns for sure, and this wasn't an argument against using LLMs for the tedious parts. It was an argument that most of the existing work isn't necessarily tedious to start with.

sanderjdOP9mo ago

Yeah. But I've been reorienting my sense of the proportion of the work that is tedious.

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