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I’ve used the reverse. When making a new module I’ve let the llm make up an api and I’ve used the names suggested as inspiration of what might come natural to others, to make the use more intuitive.

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We need to have a professional software engineering license, at least for applications that are handling sensitive data. Why is it that it takes 1000 hours of study to cut people's hair, but anyone off the street can write some software that collects people's driver's licenses? (Looking at you, Tea app developers)

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We need to have a professional software engineering license, at least for applications that are handling sensitive data. Why is it that it takes 1000 hours of study to cut people's hair, but anyone off the street can write some software that collects people's driver's licenses? (Looking at you, Tea app developers)

I think something like professional licenses are easy to see benefits of but really hard to see the downsides. How many wonderful things _wont_ be created when you start gatekeeping something? Maybe it is worth it but it's not some free win

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> LLMs hallucinated a package named "huggingface-cli" [...] it is not the name of the package [...] software is correctly installed with [...] huggingface_hub

It would be a good idea to disallow registering packages which only differ by '-'/'_'. Rust's crates.io does this, so if you register `foo-bar` you cannot register `foo_bar` anymore.

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How is this its own article and not a single sentence on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersquatting ?

It's in the first sentence? > Slopsquatting is a type of cybersquatting.

Right but why not a redirect to that one and a subsection?

I feel like this is going to fall under notability eventually

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How is this its own article and not a single sentence on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersquatting ?

It's in the first sentence? > Slopsquatting is a type of cybersquatting.

I'm asking more how this meets the notability requirements for a separate Wikipedia article.

I'm all for having lots of small Wikipedia articles, but the past few years they've been tending toward combining small articles together. And this is more like a dictionary entry than an encyclopedia entry.

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