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by embedding-shape 32 days ago
I don't see how it cannot be true. Are you claiming that every developer who uses the same LLM harness + model would produce equal code, regardless of the prompt? That's clearly not true in my experience, and I cannot understand how it could be either.

And if that's not true, then it's quite literally about how you're holding this hammer.
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malfist 32 days ago
There's a cowboy artist that paints with his penis and does amazing work. If I tried that it'd turn out incredibly poorly, I prefer to paint with paintbrushes.

Just because the naked cowboy can paint well with just his penis, doesn't mean a penis is the right tool for painting. It doesn't matter how you hold your penis, it's not the right tool.

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freedomben 32 days ago
> There's a cowboy artist that paints with his penis and does amazing work. If I tried that it'd turn out incredibly poorly, I prefer to paint with paintbrushes.

I can't decide which joke to make, either (little dick joke) "well yeah you'd have to be able to see your paintbrush in order to use it" or (big dick joke) "well yeah, if you can't even hold it in two hands, how are you supposed to paint with it?" so I'll just make both :-D

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embedding-shape 32 days ago
Hmm, ok, I think the penis in case is a bit distracting, can you de-analogize this to their real terms and tell me what this is supposed to mean and be related to developing with LLMs?
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malfist 32 days ago
Just because you _can_ do something with a tool, doesn't mean it's the right tool for the job. Just because someone has contorted their entire process to adapt to a misshapen tool, and gotten good results, doesn't mean that's the right thing to do.

It is reasonable to both use the right tool for the right job, and demand better tools than you currently have. Success with the wrong tool in the wrong job doesn't mean it's the right tool for the right job.

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embedding-shape 32 days ago
> Just because you _can_ do something with a tool, doesn't mean it's the right tool for the job. Just because someone has contorted their entire process to adapt to a misshapen tool, and gotten good results, doesn't mean that's the right thing to do.

Ok, I agree with this, don't use the wrong tool for the wrong job.

> It is reasonable to both use the right tool for the right job, and demand better tools than you currently have. Success with the wrong tool in the wrong job doesn't mean it's the right tool for the right job.

Yes, I agree with this too.

I'm still not sure how this relates to LLMs and particular this specific context. I claimed that the output of your agents depend on the developer driving it. You're saying "not every tool is right for every job", I agree with this too, but is that against/for what I said?

Could you just clearly write out exactly what you're arguing for here, no analogies or metaphors, just plain and simple, because I still feel like we're having two different conversations.

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