Why “elegant” is being discussed
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It would have been better if that opened a browser tab, one binary, much more flexibility and more elegant
by bornpsy · Oct 8, 2026
I don't know which companies you work for. Where is the code a masterpiece? In all my work, I have yet to see this elegant code. Before AI, we had to deal with human slop. Byzan…
by samtechie · Oct 8, 2026
I look at it like: If you prompt an LLM to build a web game (or something) it iterates over and over until the game works. And these days the output does indeed work. If you loo…
by 0x20cowboy · Oct 8, 2026
> Wait, what you are doing here doesn't really make sense, there exists a much more elegant abstraction that nobody has thought of, let's remove all that code, let's tackle the…
by sigbottle · Oct 8, 2026
It's a search problem; finding the shortest and most elegant path through the space of arguments.
by esafak · Oct 8, 2026
> If you are an engineer, how often has an LLM told you (without you explicitly prompting for it): Wait, what you are doing here doesn't really make sense, there exists a much m…
by slibhb · Oct 8, 2026
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Elegance is beauty that shows unusual effectiveness and simplicity. Read more on Wikipedia