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LLMs are getting very good at packaging software using Nix.
by okso 6mo ago
LLMs are getting very good at packaging software using Nix.
- CuriouslyC 6mo agoThis. I wouldn't have touched Nix when you needed someone who was really good at Nix to keep it working, but agents make it viable to use in a number of place.
- mort96 6mo agoThen you're committing to maintaining a package for that software. Like all LLM boosters, you've ignored the fact that the largest time sink in many kinds of software is not initial development, but perpetual maintenance.
- xyzzy_plugh 6mo agoIt's not materially any different from maintaining lines in a Dockerfile.
- mort96 6mo agoIt is mateirially different compared to "maintaining" the line 'RUN apt-get -y install foobar'
- SOLAR_FIELDS 6mo agoIs it though? If the way that I’m going to edit those files is by typing the same natural language command into Claude code, and the edit operation to maintain it takes 20 seconds instead of 10, to me that seems pretty materially the same
- mort96 6mo agoYes, it is
- SOLAR_FIELDS 6mo agoHow so?