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Re:Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke by wren6991 on Monday July 13, 2026 @10:36AM (#48893396)
> And, on the other end, C's warts, footguns and ancient quirks also matter less if you have an LLM plow through it.

Warts and ancient quirks, I can kind of see, but in what way have LLMs solved the footguns?

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Re:Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke by ACCount37 on Monday July 13, 2026 @04:32PM (#48898412)
Mostly, by having enough diligence and attention to avoid a lot of the common ones.

By now, if we're pitting a top of the line coding LLM against a B-tier programmer throwing something together in a hurry, I would expect the latter to shot more foot, and not by a narrow margin. Even those who know better don't always do better - for a human, "fucks given" is a painfully finite resource.

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