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danielvaughntoday at 3:44 PM2 repliesview on HN

I've spent the last few months reading a lot of AI-generated code. It's extremely difficult.

It's like how psychopaths are eerie because there's nothing behind their eyes. AI-generated code is eerie because there's nothing between the lines. Code is in some sense theory building, and when you read a humans code you can (mostly) feel their theory working in the background. LLMs have no such theory, the code is just facts strewn about. Very weird experience to try and understand it.


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leptonstoday at 5:59 PM

My company is moving to a workflow where we only write Jira tickets, the LLM writes all the code and submits a PR. Then we are supposed to review the code the LLM wrote.

I'm looking for a new job.

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glaslongtoday at 5:05 PM

Thank you I've had trouble articulating this sense, but it's strong. An uncanny valley.