<![CDATA[I rarely quote Cantrill, but he's absolutely right here about one of the emergent problems of code generation:]]>I rarely quote Cantrill, but he's absolutely right here about one of the emergent problems of code generation:

"The problem is that LLMs inherently lack the virtue of laziness. Work costs nothing to an LLM. LLMs do not feel a need to optimize for their own (or anyone’s) future time, and will happily dump more and more onto a layercake of garbage."

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