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		jazzyjackson 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I'm dialing back my LLM usage "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian Kernighan So if there's a bug in code that an LLM wrote, simply wait 6 months until the LLMs are twice as smart?

zahlman 8 months ago [–]

> > What happens when the LLM can't figure out some obscure but that's costing you $$$,$$$ per minute?

> simply wait [about a quarter of a million minutes] until the LLMs are twice as smart?

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