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progvallast Saturday at 11:00 AM1 replyview on HN

But there output is (usually) executable code, and is not committed in a VCS. So the source code is still readable.

When people use LLMs to improve their code, they commit their output to Git to be used as source code.


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Wowfunhappylast Saturday at 1:54 PM

...hmm, at some point we'll need to find a new place to draw the boundaries, won't we?

Until ~2022 there was a clear line between human-generated code and computer-generated code. The former was generally optimized for readability and the latter was optimized for speed at all cost.

Now we have computer-generated code in the human layer and it's not obvious what it should be optimized for.

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