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'AI' Sucks the Joy Out of Programming
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this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2025
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“Not worth inventing”? Do you have any idea how insanely expensive LLMs are to run? All for a problem whose solution is basically static text with a few replacements?
You’re focused too much on the “inventing” and not enough on the “one time”. A flexible solution can find value even if it’s otherwise inferior to a rigid one.
If it’s 90% boilerplate like you were saying above, how flexible does it need to be, really? If it only needs to get 90% there, surely a general-purpose scaffolding tool could do the job just as well.