AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42

Re:AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42 by jnovek on Friday June 12, 2026 @01:29PM (#48506954)

You internalize the inner workings of all the libraries in your venv? Impressive! My current project’s uv.lock has ~60 packages in it already, reading and comprehending those tens to hundreds of thousands of lines of code must be time consuming.

You’re also just confidently wrong about the model reading the code. It quotes file paths and line numbers and I open and read those files at those line numbers. For me, hallucinations are much more frequent when it references the docs rather than code because docs are more subjective than code.

This is a normal thing I’ve been doing since at least December.

I have to ask — do you actually use LLM coding tools? Your knowledge on this topic seems really out-of-date.

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Re:AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42 by tovej on Saturday June 13, 2026 @04:15AM (#48514798)

The fundamental architecture of LLMs has not changed, so knowledge on that cannot be out of date.

Do I internalize the inner workings of all the libraries? Not unless it's necessary. Sometimes it is. If I want to read the source code of the function I'm calling, I can just do that, my IDE pulls up the file with one key combination.

I'm perfectly capable of reading source code myself, I don't need a non-deterministic filter in between.

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