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Convention over LLM (CoL) – A novel approach to codinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45678448Our dependency or addiction on code generation LLMs like chatgpt and copilot didn't happen in a day, it's but natural that getting rid of that dependency is also going to be gradual - assuming you *do* want to get rid of it, that's the idea I'm trying to explore here.- *The old school stack:* Wikipedia, google search and stack overflow were not only enough for coding, they helped us create programming wonders through the last decade like Notepad++, FileZilla, Gimp, Libreoffice Calc, etc. Most open source products that came before 2024 were created mostly with assistance of these three resources, not LLM. Why not revert to this time-tested convention again?- *Snippets collection:* Before package managers and package ecosystems were fancy, the way of programmers was to "collect" reusable pieces of code and store them as snippets to be used later - pretty much like a curious kid collecting stamps and coins! This was such a wonderful convention, what happened to it? This could drastically Oct 23, 2025 5:30 AM
