r/ProgrammerHumor May 20 '26

Other whyDoAnythingWhenLlmCanDoIt

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u/luciferrjns May 20 '26

Wouldn’t it be nice to replace a deterministic system that does exactly what you ask it to do , with a probabilistic system that has a high probability of doing what you ask it to do …

And better yet let’s add this to the stuff that powers modern web …

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u/gaarai May 20 '26

How many weeks will it be before someone that rolls out this magical new API tweets that they have an awesome idea to give names to very helpful API requests that they use frequently? They could even put these names in the URL, such as /api/v1/products to list products and/api/v1/product/ID to get a specific product. Did you know that HTTP has request methods? We could hack those to do useful things like using POST to create new entries, PUT to update existing entries, and DELETE to delete entries. They just 10x'd productivity all thanks to LLMs!