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softwaredougtoday at 8:13 PM1 replyview on HN

I’m finding it all boils down to cognitive differences.

Some people find code easier to read than the English description. It’s more precise and many experienced devs can scan it and know what’s happening

Many other people can’t read code. Or they find English easier to read than code.

Thats not a knock on anyone. Maybe the latter will rule the world because the former focuses too much on irrelevant details. Or maybe me there are just different types of problems that need differing levels of attention to detail.


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rawlingtoday at 9:06 PM

Sure, read the English description.

How can you be sure that's what the code the LLM wrote actually does?

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