funny thing. in contrast to the veritable *gush* of people who have suddenly adopted vibecoding and even though you'd think they'd know better they're basically all saying the same things about how great it is...
i can't help but think back to Chuck Moore's recent - and by his own description, miserable - experience of trying to get Microsoft's own LLM to figure out how to use the Microsoft API that stopped working the way colorForth expected it to.
one small, simple problem - and he couldn't cajole the LLM from the company that made it to help him solve it.
so i guess the lesson to derive is that LLMs are great if all you care about is spewing out code that passes the test suite. but actually *debugging* that code? not gonna happen. the LLMs can't do that.
*because stochastic parrots aren't capable of analysis*.
SOMETHING WONDERFUL HAS HAPPENED TO YOUR leah :oh_no:
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