Re:I'm going back to writing code by hand
by topaz0 on Monday May 11, 2026 @08:58AM
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Sounds like you're just fine depending on an extremely imprecise abstraction (natural language) and an extremely opaque third party (anthropic).
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I can also just do it myself though lmao its not like I dont look at what it is producing
The recommended tool cant even produce mobile friendly, like why would I ever use it?
I don't know or care about that specific tool, or really what you do at all, I was just reacting to how the principle you stated conflicts with the practice you described. How you reconcile those is up to you.
I think you're missing the point of the commenter. A third party library is a new dependency. Since there's new vulnerabilities almost every week in the npm ecosystem, if you can do something without a third party, it's probably better.
With LLM driven code you can generate code once, and then if anything is shitty about it you can always manually update it yourself without the need of an LLM. It's a dependency of convenience, not an app-dependency.
From the description of the recommended tool it sounded to me like something that you use to deterministically generate code from a spec, which you could then modify if you like. That would be the same kind of dependency as the LLM workflow you describe, except that the abstraction is well-defined in a way that the LLM is not. Whether it's good or not is a different question.
That would be nice if it were the case but from what I can gather from this interesting dependency graph, there's a hard dependency on its renderer and schema.
https://jsonforms.io/img/architecture.svg
You can add your custom renderer but you still need their library for bindings and such.