Note: do not try the "click the side buttons a few times" on pixels. It starts an emergency alarm and you have 5 seconds to cancel before it starts reaching out to your emergency contacts. I almost pissed myself in bed.
Minimally, I don't find this an unusual tone in the slightest for cs threads. But then again, I'm old.
I'm also quite surprised that apparently you cannot utter what is clearly just a personal opinion -- not a claim of objective truth -- without getting downvoted. But then again, the semantics of votes are not well-defined.
At the same time, I'm quite grateful for the constructive comments further down below under my original post.
This is spot on, you can find traces of this conversation in the original thread posted on HN as well, where people are proclaiming "yeah it doesn't work, but still impressive!"
Reminds me so much of the people posting their problems about the tesla cybertruck and ending the post with "still love the truck though"
> Do you think there are 22 competing package managers in python because the package/import system "just works"?
There aren't; a large fraction of tools people mention in this context aren't actually package managers and don't try to be package managers. Sometimes people even conflate standards and config files with tools. It's really amazing how much FUD there is around it.
But more importantly, there is no such thing as "the package/import system". Packaging is one thing, and the language's import system is a completely different thing.
And none of that actually bears on the LLM's ability to choose libraries and figure out language syntax and APIs. For that matter, you don't have to let it set up the environment (or change your existing setup) if you don't want to.