RE: https://mastodon.social/@bcantrill/116393325512331807

“As for the artifact that [Garry] Tan was building with such frenetic energy, I was broadly ignoring it. Polish software engineer Gregorein, however, took it apart, and the results are at once predictable, hilarious and instructive: A single load of Tan’s "newsletter-blog-thingy" included multiple test harnesses (!), the Hello World Rails app (?!), a stowaway text editor, and then eight different variants of the same logo — one of which with zero bytes.” 😂😭

I love that article because while I find LLMs more useful than the average fediverser, my most observed and least talked about pet problem is that they allow everyone get their first idea implemented.

You don’t need any skills whatsoever to get started so you can’t judge whether the idea is worthwhile at all and you don’t get any feedback on the feasibility of the design until you run out of tokens. Anything can be brute-forced. The FOSS slop wave is just a sub problem of this.

@hynek I've also found that I need to check to see whether it actually implemented my idea, or if it implemented some half-arsed version of it that misses the key things I explicitly included that were required for it to work properly.

(I also find LLMs extremely useful, but if I want the thing to actually work I usually use them with me in the loop pretty heavily and I still miss stuff)

@DRMacIver @hynek same tbh. I can get Claude to spit out the first 80%, then I need to review it and hammer away at it for a time to get the last 80% :)