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NoGPT · 15 Sep 2024

In the end, I decided a custom solution wasn't worth the effort

vharuck on Hacker News

In the thread “Declarative Programming with AI/LLMs”, replying to this comment

Helped: Refactoring code into descriptive objects and functions.

Got in the way: AI generated code did not justify the effort of building the custom system.

… The threshold for applying the DRY principle was lowered. In the end, I decided a custom solution wasn't worth the effort. The data had identifying details of people, so any generated code would have to be checked and run by analysts who already had access to the data. …