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Comment by yunohn

1 month ago

> no programming language supports the notion of "just do the usual" or "I don't care, pick whatever, we can revisit the topic once the choice matters"

Programming languages already take lots of decisions implicitly and explicitly on one’s behalf. But there are way more details of course, which are then handled by frameworks, libraries, etc. Surely at some point, one has to take a decision? Your underlying point is about avoiding boilerplate, and LLMs definitely help with that already - to a larger extent than cookie cutter repos, but none of them can solve IRL details that are found through rigorous understanding of the problem and exploration via user interviews, business challenges, etc.