Post #4358360
2026-08-03 15:30 UTC
"Prevent cognitive debt by retyping LLM-generated code by hand"
(I just installed gorss on my #FreeBSD server, and naturally Hacker News is a default subscription, and that is the title of a post there in the default feed when I launched it)
You know, that would probably work just fine, to deal with cognitive debt. It also makes you into a 1980s 8-bit magazine kid, typing in a program off a printed page to get a chintzy Asteroids game... but that's actually a perfectly fine thing to be.
And never mind acting as a backstop to cognitive in the already-skilled - all you vibe coders out there, if you did this, you would actually turn into real programmers, over time, if you have even the slightest acumen to handle the metaphysics.
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@colorblindcowboy@mastodon.art 2026-08-03 15:55
@jpaskaruk@growers.social But wouldn’t that be a copy of a faulty copy and potentially introeuce more errors? Lord. I’m trying to imagine this as an exercise for writers.