<![CDATA[I wonder: in what cases does an LLM decide to extract to a helper function, and in what cases does it decide to repeat the same five lines of code in six different places in the same file?]]>I wonder: in what cases does an LLM decide to extract to a helper function, and in what cases does it decide to repeat the same five lines of code in six different places in the same file?

I…I can't even.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/007e8f3e-b2da-412e-9c34-2240710bb2e4/i-wonder-in-what-cases-does-an-llm-decide-to-extract-to-a-helper-function-and-in-what-cases-does-it-decide-to-repeat-the-same-five-lines-of-code-in-six-different-places-in-the-same-fileRSS for NodeSun, 26 Jul 2026 07:59:01 GMTWed, 22 Jul 2026 04:51:08 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to I wonder: in what cases does an LLM decide to extract to a helper function, and in what cases does it decide to repeat the same five lines of code in six different places in the same file? on Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:16:31 GMT]]>@gausby @iamkonstantin are you forced to use it?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.data.coop/users/reynir/statuses/116962164171410373https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.data.coop/users/reynir/statuses/116962164171410373Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:16:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I wonder: in what cases does an LLM decide to extract to a helper function, and in what cases does it decide to repeat the same five lines of code in six different places in the same file? on Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:01:41 GMT]]>@iamkonstantin or change that thing you just told it to stop doing, back to what you told it to stop doing, because you forgot to specify that you didn't want that thing…

I hate this technology.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.xyz/users/gausby/statuses/116962105830584414https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.xyz/users/gausby/statuses/116962105830584414Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:01:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I wonder: in what cases does an LLM decide to extract to a helper function, and in what cases does it decide to repeat the same five lines of code in six different places in the same file? on Wed, 22 Jul 2026 04:58:17 GMT]]>@gausby or keeps adding to the same module file to thousands of lines πŸ˜‚πŸ™ˆ

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/ap/users/116509509388802785/statuses/116961856549703822https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/ap/users/116509509388802785/statuses/116961856549703822Wed, 22 Jul 2026 04:58:17 GMT