[kandros]

The amount of cargo-culting around AI tooling and practices is so weird to me.

Why not just try and see? The fast feedback loop allow testing all kind of weird theories in a matter of 30m-1h during normal working sessions, most results are obvious

[CodesInChaos]

The configuration and workflow space is big, and exploring it isn't fun for most people.

[netdevphoenix]

>Why not just try and see?

There is a difference between trying something and performing a test whose results are meant to be representative of most setups. A lot of people (in tech surprisingly) who see themselves as practitioners of applied science, apply flawed methodologies and try to generalise the results.

Just because testing is fast, it does not mean that it is free or cheap. Plus time is money and verifying every LLM setup every koolaid dev is proclaiming on bluesky could easily be a full time job.