drop $20/month for any LLM and you don't even have to learn it!
Re:M5 MacBook Pro
by unshavedyak on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @01:24PM
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Honestly it helped quite a bit. There are a lot of obscure (imo) errors in Nix that LLMs spot pretty quickly. I made quite a bit of progress since using them for this.
Yeah it's like 99% responsible for all of my flake files; I wasn't being facetious!
LLMs are uniquely bad at writing nix configs I've found. The top models all regularly hallucinate options
Really useful for debugging though
Really? This surprises me. I've used them for projects and for my home-manager setup and it's always been amazing at it. The best example I can come up with is packaging a font I needed into a nix package for a LaTeX file. It would have taken me a month of trying various smaller projects to know how to do that.
Though if you don't like Nixlang it will of course be a chore to learn/etc. It was for me.