[halfmatthalfcat]

People always say this but how else are you going to learn? I doubt many of us who are "rolling our own crypto" are actually deploying it into mission critical contexts anyway.

[Arainach]

Asking an LLM to do something for you doesn't involve any learning at all.

[halfmatthalfcat]

I’m not talking about the LLM case, just the mantra of “don’t roll your own crypto” constantly. Comes off as unnecessarily gatekeepy.

[rsynnott]

I mean, by that, people don't generally mean, literally, "never write your own crypto". They just mean "on no account _use_ self-written crypto for anything".