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points by gspr 1 day ago | 0 comments

Yes. "A hodge-podge of little snippets I don't understand" is the situation I'm in and wish to avoid. "An LLM wrote a lot more that I don't understand" will make the situation a lot worse.

There's indeed lots of good advice in this thread. I appreciate it all! "Just use an LLM for the stuff you don't understand" is, however, not one of them.

[–] iLemming 1 day ago

You're hypothesizing of something you haven't even tried. What's the worst possible outcome? You end up with more shit you don't understand. You then just throw it away and go back to smaller amount of shit you didn't understand well to begin with.

[–] gspr 19 hours ago

"Come on just try it" is a quite weak argument.

[–] iLemming 13 hours ago

I'm sorry, but I'm out of magic scrolls to turn someone into a Lisp adept in a blink. So this time you really have to convince yourself to do something about it; I'm powerless against your lazy ass here - the curse is too strong.