alt Hacker NewsJudging from all the comments here, it’s going to be amazing seeing the fallout of all the LLM generated code in a year or so. The amount of people who seemingly relish the ability to stop thinking and let the model generate giant chunks of their code base, is uh, something else lol.
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Dunno about you, but I find thinking hard… when I offload boilerplate code to Claude, I have more cycles left over to hold the problem in my head and effectively direct the agent in detail.
Software "engineering" at it's finest
lol yep we've never had codebases hacked together by juniors before running major companies in production - nope, never
I think you are over estimating the quality of code humans generate. I take LLM over any output of junior - to mid level developer (if they were given the same prompt / ask)
It entirely depends on the exposure and reliability the code needs. Some code is just a one-off to show a customer what something might look like. I don't care at all how well the code works or what it looks like for something like that. Rapid prototyping is a valid use case for that.
I have also written a C++ code that has to have a runtime of years, meaning there can be absolutely no memory leaks or bugs whatsoever, or TV stops working. I wouldn't have a language model write any of that, at least not without testing the hell out of it and making sure it makes sense to myself.
It's not all or nothing here. These things are tools and should be used as such.