alt Hacker NewsI find all AI code to be lower quality than humans who care about quality. This might be ok, I think the assumpt with AI is that we don't need to look at code so that it looks beautiful because AI will look at it .
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mongrelion • yesterday at 7:47 PM
My experience with generating code with AI is very limited across a limited set of programming languages but whenever it has produced low quality code, it has been able to better itself with further instructions. Like "oh no, that is not the right naming convention. Please use instead" or "the choice of design pattern here is not great because ${reasons}. Produce 2 alternative solutions using x or y" and in nearly every case it produces satisfactory results.
Has this also been your experience?
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Opus 4.5 is the highest quality code I've seen out of LLMs, still some way to go to match programmers who care, but much better than most people. I find it enough to let it write the code and then manually polish it afterwards.