[baq]

Again, missing the point.

You can. I can't. I don't want to. I don't care if it's slow, I can easily tell if it's correct and I can make the LLM fix incorrectness (in this simple case, anyway).

The point is this project probably wouldn't have happened without an LLM.

[mpalmer]

This "project" is a toy application that exists for no other reason than vibe coding evangelism.

> You can. I can't.

> I can easily tell if it's correct and I can make the LLM fix incorrectness (in this simple case, anyway).

Pick one.

[baq]

I'm pretty sure black box testing is not a dark art around here.

[bena]

Getting the right answer with the wrong process is still a failure.

So even if the result happens to be correct for the example you gave it, this process may not be able to produce correct results for other cases. Or even this case again.

And if you can't understand the process, then you won't know when that happens.

Now, if you're just trying to sell the result. I guess, no harm, no foul. When the process breaks, you'll be the one affected. That's fair play.

But if you're trying to sell the process, you should be able to verify the process. Because otherwise you are selling a broken tool.

[namaria]

Are you just running code you don't understand to see what happens?

[bko]

I'm reminded of the infamous hn comment when Dropbox was announced

> 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

[djmips]

This project actually didn't happen even with the LLM.