[simianwords]

What do you classify as new? Every problem that we solve as developers is a very small deviation from already existing problems. Maybe that’s the point of llms?

How many developers do you think are solving truly novel problems? Most like me are CRUD bunnies.

[xigoi]

If your problem is a very small deviation from an existing problem, you should be able to take an existing open-source solution and make a very small modification to adapt it to your use case. No need for “vibe-coding” a lower-quality implementation from scratch.

[palmotea]

Yeah, it kind of strikes me how a lot of the LLM use cases would actually be better served by existing techniques, like more/better libraries. And if that's not possible, it'd be way better to find the closest match, fork it, and make minimal modifications. At least then you have the benefit of an upstream.

But, sort of like cryptocurrency, the LLM people aren't so much trying to solve actual problems, but rather find an application of their existing technology. Sort of like the proverbial saying: when you're selling hammers, you want convince everyone that their problem as a nail.

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And these developers do not write the majority of their codebase, they use tons of libraries and only write the glue code.