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The fate of "small" open source

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295 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 16 Nov 25 19:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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noosphr ◴[16 Nov 25 22:43 UTC] No.45949148[source]▶
I see this as an absolute win. The state of micro dependencies of js was a nightmare that only happened because a lot of undereducated developers flooded the market to get that sweet faang money.

Now that both have dried up I hope we can close the vault door on js and have people learn how to code again.

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KPGv2 ◴[16 Nov 25 23:52 UTC] No.45949614[source]▶
Your first sentence cheers that we're moving from NPM micropackages to LLM-generated code, and then you say this will result in people having to learn to code again.

I don't see how the conclusion follows from this.

There will be many LLM-generated functions purporting to do the same thing, and a bug in one of them that gets fixed means only one project gets fixed instead of every project using an NPM package as a dependency.

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1. austin-cheney ◴[17 Nov 25 06:54 UTC] No.45951374[source]▶
You mention that you don’t see how this could result in developers that write code. Then you immediately follow that with fixing bugs.

Yes, use of LLMs is still developers not writing original code, but it’s still an improvement (a minor one) of the copy/paste of micro dependencies.

Ultimately developers aren’t going to figure out writing original code until they are forced to do so from changed conditions within their employer.