Comment by malfist

5 days ago

This analogy was trotted out every time someone complained about PHP. It wasn't true then, and it isn't true now.

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embedding-shape  5 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.

  • malfist  5 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.

    • freedomben  5 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

    • embedding-shape  5 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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