It is remarkably difficult to learn what a programming language is like work with.
It's easy to conclude '$LANG is rubbish, it doesn't even have a good way of doing $TASK!' due to not knowing the available tools well. 1/n
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LLMs seem to handle dependency upgrades really well.
The task is well-specified, there's usually a build/test suite to check correctness of the modifications, and there's often a changelog they can consume too.
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Is there a programming equivalent of the strawberry problem, i.e. a specific coding task that LLMs are consistently bad at?
Tried `just` (the task runner) today, and I really like it. npm has scripts, but `just` works anywhere.
Editor integration is also excellent: you can get by with Makefile highlighting, but in Emacs you can even run everything interactively!
https://github.com/casey/just