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Well, yeah. It’s a more nuanced way of saying that because “it didn’t work” isn’t very useful nor descriptive.

What if it wrote all of the boilerplate and just let you focus on the important bit that deserves your scrutiny?

You could say I failed every single project I ever built because it took many iterations to get to the final deliverable stage with lots of errors along the way. So more nuance would be needed.

But when it comes to LLMs suddenly we get all gleeful about how negatively we can frame the experience. Even among HN tech scholars.

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