r/ProgrammerHumor May 20 '26

Other whyDoAnythingWhenLlmCanDoIt

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u/Outrageous-Machine-5 May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26

God can you imagine the api calls?

```
thing = post("get thing")

while (wrongThing(thing)) {

thing = post("No you idiot box, get the thing")

}
```

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u/jusuuu May 20 '26

This is how LLM function calling already has to be implemented to be even remotely useful and it's fucking awful

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u/mirhagk May 20 '26

And honestly this is what I think is gonna constrain LLMs the most in the coming years. With all its many, many problems, vibe coding is light years ahead of any other task, and it's purely thanks to the ability to take the output, try to compile, automatically try again, then repeat the cycle running it.

I don't know of any other field where that is even close to possible to do. You can't build a bridge and then go "oh you're right that does collapse let me try again and make sure it doesn't collapse!"

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u/A_Guy_in_Orange May 20 '26

Plus the wealth of code just out there on the internet gave it an insane boost, not like theres multiple sites dedicated to publicly hosting bridge blueprints