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Tangental, but my LSP config breaks every few months. I don't bother to fix it anymore, I open an LLM in ~/dotfiles and complain until it works again, usually i
by nomilk 13d ago
Tangental, but my LSP config breaks every few months. I don't bother to fix it anymore, I open an LLM in ~/dotfiles and complain until it works again, usually in a few minutes.
What's interesting is observing how much work this takes. (it gives me much more empathy toward my past self; how was a clumsy human supposed to know and reason about these things!?, especially when I hadn't touched the configs since a few months prior and had forgotten them almost entirely).
Most often there's 10-20 very small programs all working together to give the desired experience. The amount of minutes and tokens required to solve these seemingly simple problems like "My LSP isn't working" is sometimes much more than expected.
- weknowbetter 13d agoI bet if you look back, you were using a lot less effort in the past than what you see the LLM doing now. They are pretty bad at taking a straight line to the solution.
- tombert 13d agoI have the exact same anecdote; it makes me wonder if this is a common enough use case that a small language model could be trained and run locally for these kinds of “configuration bullshit problems”. I feel like a very large percentage of my Claude usage ends up having it automate configuration shit, because historically that has been the part of software engineering I have always hated.
- SSLy 13d agoit's not small but DS4F is cheap enough to have a go on this, it works wonderfully
- 6yyyyyy 13d agoThis seems like the LLM is vastly overcomplicating things. My entire Neovim config is a single 500 line init.lua and this is enough for LSP to work.
- jeltz 13d agoLLMs love overcomplicating things so that is to be expected.
- lelandbatey 13d agoMy nvim LSP config is 20 lines and mostly consists of "if you see X language, use Y program as LSP". I also have been using the same LSP config for approximately 7 years. I don't get the pain.
- chachachainsaw 13d agoI mentioned on the main thread, but thought it would be topical here too. Claude Code ships LSP support but only if packaged within a plugin. So there are hoops you have to jump through to get it rather than getting it out of the box. But it might be long term more reliable than ad hoc fixes?