I've not seen the HN source code, but superficially it seems quite bare-bones (which I appreciate!). Are you sure you wouldn't prefer a harder target?
Yeah, I think it'd suffice. It's less about if it's possible or not (as apparently building something resembling of a browser "from scratch" isn't that hard), and more about exactly how it ends up being built, as that's the "software engineering" part that I'm arguing is still the hard part, and LLMs aren't that great at it (yet?).
A smaller test case would also be faster to execute, rather than spending 3 days of an engineers time, but I guess ultimately that's less important, just a happy side effect.
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Yeah, I think it'd suffice. It's less about if it's possible or not (as apparently building something resembling of a browser "from scratch" isn't that hard), and more about exactly how it ends up being built, as that's the "software engineering" part that I'm arguing is still the hard part, and LLMs aren't that great at it (yet?).
A smaller test case would also be faster to execute, rather than spending 3 days of an engineers time, but I guess ultimately that's less important, just a happy side effect.