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0 pointssd93mo ago0 comments

LLMs are very much NIH machines

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ffsm83mo ago· 4 in thread

i'd go one step further, they're going to turbo charge the NIH syndrome and treat every code file as a seperate "here"

j_bum3mo ago

For others like me who know “NIH” to be “National Institutes of Health”…

“NIH” here refers to “Not Invented Here” Syndrome, or a bias against things developed externally.

coldtea3mo ago

Basically not wanting to use dependencies or frameworks from outside the company or team.

protocolture3mo ago

See I thought they were the same thing, considering the Queensland Health payroll database issues, I assumed someone coined the term assuming it would clobber Health acronyms.

clayhacks3mo ago

Yeah it’s gonna make the bar for good enough here super easy to meet and people will have less reasons to look around outside

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