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My default assumption is that external libraries are better than what I (or an LLM) would write in a v1. The extra effort to publish a project generally signifies that the author has spent a good amount of time on the problem. I end up prompting LLMs to prefer external code.

An Experimental Evaluation of the Assumption of Independence in Multi-Version Programming, by John Knight and Nancy Leveson https://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/nver-tse.pdf If you take bunch of programs written independently, are you more likely to reduce bugs by taking the most common output?