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There's no point at which turning your brain off will work
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Hacker News | Sep 18, 2026 | robin_reala
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Sometimes, people will try to get the LLM to write some code for them and basically just assume that it works3. Niklas Gruhn calls some variants of doing this being a meat proxy. 4 Being a for loop meat proxy works better than it did in early 2025 and the software I've tried that's developed like this sometimes actually sort of works. The while loop often feels like a crunch time.
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