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It is nothing at all like UB in a compiler. UB creates invisible bugs that tend to be discovered only after things have shipped. This is code generation. You can just read the code to see what it does, which is what most professionals using LLMs do.


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ModernMechlast Monday at 5:01 AM

With the volume of code people are generating, no you really can't just read it all. pg recently posted [1] that someone he knows is generating 10kloc/day now. There's no way people are using AI to generate that volume of code and reading it. How many invisible bugs are lurking in that code base, waiting to be found some time in the future after the code has shipped?

[1] https://x.com/paulg/status/1953289830982664236

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