Good tech 'makes simple stuff easy and hard stuff possible'. The hard stuff still requires thought, sadly. No silver bullet.
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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.
Is there a good canonical name for autofixes, where a static analysis tool can apply a change to resolve an issue?
Clang calls them fix-its, LSP calls them quickfixes.
Igalia's post on self-hosting CI runners is a masterclass in build engineering. It shows dealing with weird API constraints, but still finding good designs.
I also learnt that some CI systems use OCR on Apple's installers to automate!
