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Using LLMs at Oxide

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john01dav ◴[] No.46178535[source]
> it is presumed that of the reader and the writer, it is the writer that has undertaken the greater intellectual exertion. (That is, it is more work to write than to read!)

This applies to natural language, but, interestingly, the opposite is true of code (in my experience and that of other people that I've discussed it with).

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worble ◴[] No.46178563[source]
See: Kernighan's Law

> Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you’re as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

https://www.laws-of-software.com/laws/kernighan/

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1. SilverSlash ◴[] No.46179141[source]
What an amazing quote!