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I built the fastest PHP webserver in the world

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  1. mpalmer · · focus · HN ↗
    I'm confused why the copy you generated repeatedly boasts "no nginx, no Redis" as if those things don't exist independently of application servers for a reason, and as if building something that doesn't need these things (when deployed as a single instance) is particularly notable.

    "no Docker" - so what? Docker is a tool. Running containers on Linux has extremely low overhead. No idea what this is about.

    You didn't spend the effort to decorate the slop with your rationale for these choices, so I see no evidence that you built any of this.

    1. tobz1000 · · focus · HN ↗
      One of the biggest shortcomings I often see with LLM-produced content, following a planning conversation, is that they misunderstand the breadth of the domain for which a detail is relevant or interesting.

      So if it fixes a bug where function was accidentally deleting a file, it will update the function's documentation with "does not delete any important files", as if that's a key feature and not just one of a million things it should not do.

      The same pattern repeats when an LLM is left to generate its own copy after a brainstorming and architecting session. It has no concept of what's important to the end-user.

      1. DenisM · · focus · HN ↗
        I observed the same, and generalized it as inability to recognize salience and more broadly apply discretion.

        In turn it makes me wonder how do humans do those things? Perhaps it is our human job to apply discretion going forward.

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