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@RosaCtrl oh.
Can we guillotine him anyway though?
@RosaCtrl sounds like classic "effective altruism" drivel to me. The computer will simulate trillions of humans in the future and those simulations will be happy, so genociding a few billion today is basically a moral imperative if it brings the simulation fantasy even slightly closer to reality.
They're all basically part of the same cult.
The key value of rapid prototyping *for the author and prospective contributors* is lost when the prototype proves only that a mechanism is possible, without also capturing and expressing the kernel of the implementation idea.
(Incidentally this is also why I love those rare projects which preserve the initial rapid prototype in the repo for reference, long long after the program has grown into a full-fledged robust implementation.)
I'm seeing people compare LLM generated code to "a hacky shell or Python script", as in a rough throwaway tool not meant to be built atop or understood.
Gently, I'll argue that this is misunderstanding the value of shell scripts in particular & rapid prototyping in general. The value and the point of shell scripts is to set down on disk the smallest kernel of a working idea specifically so it *can* be understood clearly, then iteratively expanded & replaced to cover surrounding special cases.
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