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oblioyesterday at 11:34 PM1 replyview on HN

What if LLMs, at the end of the day are machines, so for now generally dumber than humans and the best they can provide are at most statistically median implementantions (and if 80% of code out there is crap, the median will be low)?

Now that's a scary thought that basically goes against "1 trillion dollars can't be wrong".

Now, LLMs are probably great range extenders, but they're not wonder weapons.


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lossyalgotoday at 12:56 AM

Also who is to say what is actually crap? Writing great code is completely dependent on context. An AI could exclusively be trained on the most beautiful and clean code in the world, yet if it chooses the wrong paradigm in the wrong context, it doesn't matter how beautiful that code is - it's still gonna be totally broken code.