Re:Taking another shot at the cheap IP camera, part 2
by LoganDark on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @09:57AM
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Love to see the deconstructive approach here, where LLMs only come into play when you're stumped and then only on that specific part. It's a good approach, it lets you get more practice instead of it all coming to a stop.
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Re:Taking another shot at the cheap IP camera, part 2
by NewsaHackO on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @10:27AM
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I agree, he really seemed to use it mainly to help stay on task, and be forced into unproductive rabbit holes. Great example is the function that turned out to be a float to int conversion; that has nothing really to do with what he is attempting to solve, and would be disheartening to use a bunch of effort only to find it wasted on such a mundane function.
Re:Taking another shot at the cheap IP camera, part 2
by elevation on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @10:47AM
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> disheartening to use a bunch of effort only to find it wasted
It's disheartening if your life plan was to do this for 4 hours then never again. But if you meant to keep using this skill, today's hard-won knowledge, combined with continued use, means he'll personally be able to eyeball a similar disassembled float-conversion function in the future and have an educated guess at its purpose, which is a super power!
Re:Taking another shot at the cheap IP camera, part 2
by throwaway219450 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @12:16PM
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In particular, the LLM inset/tip boxes with the robot emoji are a nice presentation element. It’s reassuring to the reader that the main blog is probably not bot written, and serves to separate the responses in a clean way. It’s wild that we even have to discuss this, but here we are.