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Comment by forgetfreeman

1 day ago

There is the undocumented 3rd option of simply shrugging and moving on without LLMs, you know, business as usual.

That ship has sailed. Even if you never even tab complete in cursor, if you don’t let LLMs review your code you’re very, very behind unless you’re in a deeply specialized domain which doesn’t have any public training data available. Anything remotely public and you’re just outpaced.

  • It might just be fine to be outpaced. Software isn’t actually infinite, it has a purpose and does things. If it does the things it needs to do then… great! Maybe you’re done. And maybe you were done 20 years ago.

  • Mythos found one low-severity vulnerability in curl.

    • Curl is one of the most audited code bases, so that's not surprising.

      Put it in front of a common-ish Python or NPM package and see what it finds, likely going to be a lot more.

That's not the option most are going to take.

  • shrug Not really a me problem, but I'd counsel taking an afternoon to reflect on what part of any of this is actually inevitable. You know, maybe come up for air for a minute and examine the industry hype from 30,000 ft.

That's a choice you are free to make, just like you're free to shrug and not use the internet or computers.

  • eyeroll If you truly had the courage of your convictions you would have gone all in here and told me to stop using electricity.

    • I haven't told you to do anything, only highlighted that you can choose how to live your life, including not using LLM's.

      Believe it or not, some people actually do derive a great deal of value from LLM's and it's also ok if you don't or can't.

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Ridiculous. Haven't you heard? All critical thinking skills have long since been sacrificed on the altars of the AI gods and it's inconceivable that we write any code the old way. If you actually understand your code it means you're a luddite and are going to be left behind. /s