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rvzyesterday at 10:25 PM1 replyview on HN

> Not really. Got some code you don't understand? Feed it to a model and ask it to add comments.

Absolutely not.

An experienced individual in their field can tell if the AI made a mistake in the comments / code rather than the typical untrained eye.

So no, actually read the code and understand what it does.

> Ultimately humans will never need to look at most AI-generated code, any more than we have to look at the machine language emitted by a C compiler.

So for safety critical systems, one should not look or check if code has been AI generated?


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CamperBob2today at 12:42 AM

So for safety critical systems, one should not look or check if code has been AI generated?

If you don't review the code your C compiler generates now, why not? Compiler bugs still happen, you know.

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