alt Hacker NewsA manager doesn't have to look at the code that's being shipped. An IC will still need to do that, and this will eventually take up much of their work. It can be addressed by moving up the stack to higher level and more strictly checked languages, where there's overall less stuff to review manually.
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jnwatson • today at 12:58 PM
Just like a manager, you don't need to look at the code. You need to set up quality systems to provide evidence the code does what it is supposed to do, just like a manager.
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girvo • today at 1:21 PM
The dirty secret is all the people talking about shipping 4 features a day etc are just lying about reviewing anything. They don’t review it at all.
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hansmayer • today at 12:55 PM
Spot on. When will the cretins understand, it's not about how much code you can generate.
People typically think it's not a new person's fault if they come in to a team and bring down production.
That's a failure of the existing infrastructure to allow someone to do this.
LLM coding will work like this.
If you're letting LLMs go wild with no system in place to automatically know they're moving in the right direction and "shipping" things up to your standards, the failure is you, not the LLM.