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by mrkramer 764 days ago
Individual who sent that mail has trollish name, trollish email account and s/he is talking gibberish. My conclusion was, give it a pass and move on.

>I would not be surprised if this person misused the library, got called out for it in code-review (calling the iterator multiple times is a huge code-smell), and now they are soothing their ego by shifting blame onto the library author for making "such a bad API."

It could be that but then again it's his or her fault not the maintainer's. At the end of the day, s/he has some serious anger control issues if that's true.

>The other reason I don't think it's an LLM is simpler: most commercial LLMs wouldn't be "aligned" to be that rude, and the smaller LLMs I've seen wouldn't be able to inject relevant code snippets from a relatively unpopular library into the output.

You can modify some open source LLM to talk trash, meaning teach it to hate and disrespect.