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IF there is documentation, IF it is even covered in documentation, IF documentation is using the sameish keywords, IF documentation is accurate and IF documentation is up to date.
- I see this is not your first rodeo!
- AKA not nix/nixos.
  
  Anti Commercial-AI license
  
  what's wrong with nixos?
  
  I mean, it's fine. And if you can't find something the NixOS subreddit is usually pretty helpful
- Looking at you, Texas Instruments
  
  Bro what? TI has like... the best docs. What are you talking about? They have the Microsoft C# docs of the semiconductor world. Clear examples, every little detail, well organized. Darn near perfect example of what to do
Hey, 8 hours is a whole day well paid and if I fix it in 5 min I don't wanna start allocating virtual memory for the next problem
I have another one:

30min of fighting with an LLM can save you 10s of boilerplate
Jokes on you, using AI I got that time down to 4 hours trying to convince it to create working code, and 3 hours of debugging.
- Never ask it to do regex. Holy fuck, thank God I was just doing it for funsies as a test of local LLMs. I got it to go into an infinite loop trying to figure out what I asked.
  
  I don't blame the LLM, regex is a write-only language.
How about 8 hours troubleshooting while trying to find the right documentation.
Hey! Riding the Battle Cat in the first panel, then a jet rider on the second!

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