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The Grug Brained Developer (2022)

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1087 points smartmic | 6 comments | 17 Jun 25 20:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.244s | source | bottom
1. tartoran ◴[17 Jun 25 21:47 UTC] No.44304307[source]▶
This has to be adapted to the LLM era as well.
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2. tptacek ◴[17 Jun 25 21:53 UTC] No.44304357[source]▶
In my experience, LLM agents are pretty Grug-brained.
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3. Night_Thastus ◴[17 Jun 25 22:08 UTC] No.44304487[source]▶
Grug has common sense. LLMs don't even have that.
4. Cerium ◴[17 Jun 25 22:22 UTC] No.44304612[source]▶
They might be grug brained but they act big brained. Very clubable.
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5. tptacek ◴[17 Jun 25 23:32 UTC] No.44305094{3}[source]▶
That's one of their great charms, because you don't have to feel bad when you club them.
6. ethan_smith ◴[18 Jun 25 01:43 UTC] No.44305892[source]▶
LLMs actually reinforce grug principles - they work best with simple, consistent patterns and struggle with the same complexity demons that confuse humans.