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by hombre_fatal 48 days ago
Yes, I trust my LLM codegen and review process far more than the code I was never going to read from all of my transitive deps and every sequential update to them forever.

This is a trivial bargain for most libraries we were using not long ago out of convenience. Like a library just for setting ansi colors for your TUI.

Ideally you have minimal deps scoped to the truly hard things: libghostty, btrfs, luks, postgres, etc. Then you focus on the application and generate the mechanical glue code on demand with a solid harness that keeps the important stuff well-tested.

Though you’ll need to figure out how to build that harness/process before it really delivers.