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   cthos 🐱 (cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev)'s status on Monday, 04-May-2026 10:13:04 JST cthos 🐱

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   *hovers over the "fix all autofixable errors button"*

   no, no I should ask a non-deterministic language model to correct this for me.

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     cthos 🐱 (cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev)'s status on Monday, 04-May-2026 10:13:05 JST cthos 🐱

     *rubs temples*

     ...there are a non-zero number of devs out there who think LLMs are magic because they never bothered setting up their deterministic tooling, aren't there?

     (this is wild speculation on my part but I just encountered "use a small language model to fix small code errors" in the wild and I'm just... what?)

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     cthos 🐱 (cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev)'s status on Monday, 04-May-2026 10:13:05 JST cthos 🐱

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     This might actually be worse than I was thinking and is in fact "smol language model please fix the errors my LSP is detecting" which.... yeah.

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     cthos 🐱 (cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev)'s status on Monday, 04-May-2026 12:28:23 JST cthos 🐱

     • Matthew Lyon

     @mattly The people in question were in fact arguing that they should not have to pay a billion dollar corporation to do this and thus "small language model".

     But like... it's right there! The tools exist.