gerald sussman once said that programming is no longer constructive, building truths from truths, instead investigative, identifying probable behavior from unreliable libraries. anyway, llms,,,

https://wingolog.org/archives/2009/03/24/international-lisp-conference-day-two

@wingo It is a shame, that most people don't even aim to learn how to make things themselves, if only there is a half-broken library doing it for them, even if writing that function would be a 1-pager or not much code, if one only knew how to do it. I think this is what leads to so many projects having so many dependencies. Projects with no dependencies but a standard library immediately feel like a breath of fresh air.