On: Making o1, o3, and Sonnet 3.7 hallucinate for everyone

[andix]

Boilerplate is better than bad abstractions. But good abstractions are far superior.

[xmprt → andix]

I agree with you but as I've matured as a programmer, I feel like it's very hard to get abstractions for boilerplate right. Every library I've seen attempt to do it has struggled.

[Spivak → xmprt]

Even Rails went with codegen despite being backed by the language most amenable to abstractions.

[int_19h → Spivak]

I would consider deterministic codegen to be a valid abstraction (or rather a valid implementation of some abstraction). It's not really any different from a regular library wrt ability to test & validate. The problem with any human- and LLM- handwritten code is that even the best coders make mistakes.

[bubblyworld → andix]

Abstractions are like mutations - most of them kill the host =P

[pertymcpert → andix]

The best abstraction is no abstraction.

[andix → pertymcpert]

No.

Edit: I'm not going to code asm just to be cool.

[brookst → andix]

asm? Why would anyone use that useless abstraction over byte code?

[nuancebydefault → brookst]

bytes are abstractions. Only use them if you know upfront how many bits you need.