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		fragmede 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Frontend Treadmill Meanwhile, I had to do some backend thing yesterday, and ended up using the LD_LIBRARY_PATH trick, which was introduced in 1988. I'm grateful that LLMs are great at writing frontend code for me, though the broader implications are a bit scary.

soco 7 months ago [–]

But can a LLM help writing code for a library released or updated a few months ago, covering the implied breaking changes? With the way they work today, probably not.

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