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Re:Show HN: MonkeyPatch – Cheap, fast and predictable LLM fu... by OJFord on Thursday November 16, 2023 @09:04AM (#38289613)
I guess. I think of it more like overriding an existing thing with another for a given scope/time/test, whereas this is providing an implementation for a thing which exists only as a stub.

Maybe it 'counts', I'm not meaning to be picky about the term, my point is more like even if this works by monkeypatching, I wouldn't personally use the term for the product which does something else by those means, if that makes sense? MonkeyLLM or MonkAIpatch or something, sure.

The other comment with a 'list comprehension' example puts it well I think.

(Seeing as you asked for name suggestions elsewhere, I think I prefer the 'stub' theme: Stubby, StubAI, Stubmonkey if you like monkeys/wanted an easier logo, something like that.)

Re:Show HN: MonkeyPatch – Cheap, fast and predictable LLM fu... by JackHopkins on Thursday November 16, 2023 @12:45PM (#38292814)
I do get the point and the difference from the classical monkey-patching. I like the stub ideas though!