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Re:We put a coding agent in a while loop by CuriouslyC on Sunday August 24, 2025 @01:36PM (#45006084)
I started building a project by trying to wire in existing open source stuff. When I looked at the build and stuff that would cause me to bring in, and the actual stuff I needed from the open source tools, it turned out to be MUCH faster/cleaner to just get Claude to check out the repo and port the stuff I needed directly.

Now I do a calculus with dependencies. Do I want to track the upstream, is the rigging around the core I want valuable, is it well maintained? If not, just port and move on.

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Re:We put a coding agent in a while loop by ghuntley on Sunday August 24, 2025 @11:52PM (#45010032)
> If not, just port and move on.

Exactly the point behind this post https://ghuntley.com/libraries/

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Re:We put a coding agent in a while loop by huksley on Monday August 25, 2025 @06:06PM (#45019678)
Generated by AI libraries will by definition have all the security bugs you might encounter in the open, since it trains on them.

I would say, it is better maintain your own AI improved forks of the libraries and I am hoping that pattern will be more common and will also benefit upstream libraries as well.

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