alt Hacker NewsLike clockwork, every single thread about something AI-related has someone expressing their disgust at passages of LLM-written text. In many cases by the same people who are enthusiastically embracing LLM-generated software. Why don't we show the same level of contempt for LLM-authored software as we do for even the slightest hint of LLM-authored text in a blog post?
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bluebands • yesterday at 8:40 PM
code is not user-facing, functionality, ux, and specs are!
there are many apps with ai-generated ideas, specs, and functionality. nobody uses them because of the contempt.
in either case, the part that's user-facing is ai-resistant
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NuclearPM • yesterday at 8:49 PM
Code is machinery, writing is communication between humans.
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We don't like LLMs throwing giant walls of code in PRs at repos and expecting devs to read and respond to all of them.
That's kind of similar to written content being posted and linked. There's an expectation that you are asking someone to take time to read it, and with LLMs now the cost to generate things to be read is a lot lower but our attention and capacity to read them remains the same.