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Comment by paulddraper

2 months ago

How often are base level libraries/frameworks changing in incomparable ways?

In the JavaScript world, very frequently. If latest is 2.8 and I’m coding against 2.1, I don’t want answers using 1.6. This happened enough that I now always specify versions in my prompt.

  • Geez

    • Normally I’d think of “geez” as a low-effort reply, but my reaction is exactly the same…

      What on earth is the maintenance load like in that world these days? I wonder, do JavaScript people find LLMs helpful in migrating stuff to keep up?

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The more popular a library is, the more times its updated every year, the more it will suffer this fate. You always have refine prompts with specific versions and specific ways of doing things, each will be different on your use case.