[lopkeny12ko]

It's not 50 lines of code if all the real work is done by importing a library...

That's like saying, I can solve any problem in 2 lines of code. I'll publish a library for it first, then:

import foo; foo.do_the_thing()

Magic!

[antonvs]

Software developers hate this one simple trick!

[peab]

did people say the same thing when assembly code got abstracted away?

[orblivion]

There's levels of abstraction. "lines of Python" to me roughly means the standard library.

[sciolist]

Agreed. If it was "RLHF a LLM in <50 lines" I feel it would be clear, but "lines of Python" implies something different.

[skelpmargyar]

Importing a library is not abstraction any more than closing your eyes is abstracting the world to black.

[__loam]

The point of libraries is abstraction. You get to use the library without writing the library or knowing the underlying implementation.

[therealdrag0]

[relevant xkcd]