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Bryan Cantrill reflects on Larry Wall's three virtues of a programmer - laziness, impatience, and hubris - and argues that LLMs inherently lack the virtue of laziness. While they can produce vast quantities of code, they don't feel the constraint of time that drives humans to create crisp abstractions and simpler systems.
By Vitaly BelmanBryan Cantrill reflects on Larry Wall's three virtues of a programmer - laziness, impatience, and hubris - and argues that LLMs inherently lack the virtue of laziness. While they can produce vast quantities of code, they don't feel the constraint of time that drives humans to create crisp abstractions and simpler systems.