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		_vertigo 14 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zig → Rust porting guide I see this dilemma with LLMs all of the time. Should you use the LLM to do the thing directly, or use the LLM to implement a tool that does the thing? I tend to reach for the latter, it’s easier to reason about.

professoretc 14 days ago [–]

Plus, if the LLM goes down (or gets "upgraded" to a model that does the translation differently/wrong), you still have the tool available locally.

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