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This is cool but also makes me worried about the tendency with llms for all of us to make bespoke solutions rather than building a better community tool or exte
by mrbombastic 2mo ago
This is cool but also makes me worried about the tendency with llms for all of us to make bespoke solutions rather than building a better community tool or extending an existing tool to solve the problem. fastlane exists to solve exactly this problem in the mobile space.
- ryandrake 2mo agoAlso, shell scripts as part of a build are usually a little worrying. I'd at least want the build steps to be all integrated into my Makefile or CMakeLists.txt
- vl 2mo agoBespoke solutions are better in many cases. They do exact things required for the project without taking extra dependency. Reducing dependencies is beneficial, because dependencies require management. So with llms economy of taking dependency shifted.
- SoftTalker 2mo ago... avoiding this problem: https://xkcd.com/974 https://xkcd.com/974
- mrbombastic 2mo agoeverything has tradeoffs, on the one hand you are right you have one less dependency, on the other hand the maintenance of said dependency is now on you. many times app store connect has changed some api and fixing our release process was a matter of updating fastlane because the community had already dealt with it, that's on you if you have a bespoke delivery solution.
- doug_durham 2mo agoThe llm is the better community tool. The important change is that you don't have to settle with someone developing a monolithic tool that happens to do what you need it to do. That was the way things used to need to be done because of the cost.