Comment by dogscatstrees

8 hours ago

It was just yesterday that this top post [] was decrying the "peril of laziness lost", that LLMs inherently lack the virtue of laziness.

So which one are they?

[] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743628

I think laziness is not a minimum of effort. Laziness can actually be more effort towards a simpler or more practical solution, because those solutions are more pleasant in some way, and therefore more attractive to pursue.

  • Reminds me of Larry Wall's three virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience and hubris.