alt Hacker NewsYes, if it was made for human comprehension or maintenance.
If it's entirely generated / consumed / edited by an LLM, arguably the most important metric is... test coverage, and that's it ?
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Oh boy, you couldn't be more wrong. If something, LLM-s need MORE readable code, not less. Do you want to burn all your money in tokens?
Can't we have generated / llm generated code to be more human maintainable?
Can't wait to have LLM generated physical objects that explode on you face and no engineer can fix.
Ye I honestly don't understand his comment. Is it bad code writing? Pre 2026? Sure. In 2026. Nope. Is it going to be a headache for some poor person on oncall? Yes. But then again are you "supposed" to go through every single line in 2026? Again no. I hate it. But the world is changing and till the bubble pops this is the new norm
LLMs are so so far away from being able to independently work on a large codebase, and why would they not benefit from modularity and clarity too?