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garciasnyesterday at 3:34 PM1 replyview on HN

Isn’t this how all software development works? Folks commit code, it’s tested, and reviewed, and then deployed.

Why would this be any different?


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PaulDavisThe1styesterday at 3:53 PM

That's not how software development works.

Folks think, they write code, they do their own localized evaluation and testing, then they commit and then the rest of the (down|up)stream process begins.

LLM's skip over the "actually verify that the code I just wrote does what I intended it to" step. Granted, most humans don't do this step as thoroughly and carefully as would be desirable (sometimes through laziness, sometimes because of a belief in (down|up)stream testing processes). But LLM's don't do it at all.

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