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christmas tomato@mischievoustomato@0.5dollah.click (2026-08-30 15:10:16)
it makes things easier to manage, roll back, contain, et cetera (it's 1am). But again, I reckon LLMs trivialize a lot of this.
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7666@7666@comp.lain.la (2026-08-30 15:14:24)
@mischievoustomato they don't unless you deliberately ask them to. they don't know when to stop and think unless you know when to ask them to.

the problem is LLMs have no opinions. they'll just do "industry standard" things based on the gamut of what they've been trained on. that gamut is generally sort of shit, and it magnifies the operator's shit for a shit sandwich. that's how you get 2,000 line commits.

some of the best software engineers i've met are very opinionated people doing things solidly differently from others because they've been through the trenches and stubbed their toe a billion times on what not to do and their way ends up saving everyone time and effort even if it's a bit baroque. i'm just as opinionated in the same way. if i can channel that opinionated behavior into LLM operation then it *can* work out fine. but you gotta stub your toe before you know why you shouldn't do X or Y.

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Blurry Moon@sun@shitposter.world (2026-08-30 15:18:33)
@7666 @mischievoustomato modern agents have the concept of a memory and sometimes it will be like "we tried it this way five times and every time it didn't work right away so now we're doing it this other way we've seen work the first time" its not perfect but