alt Hacker NewsAt this point, I wouldn't be too surprised if LLMs just get better at "write understandable, maintainable code" than most developers are.
For now, LLMs are still bad at it, but they're already at "competitive with humans" tier of bad. I expect them to get better.
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realusername • yesterday at 1:54 PM
I don't think they ever will on the "maintainable" part until their absolutely atrocious memory gets improved at least tenfold. (and no, the tricks we deployed until now aren't enough)
They already are better than most humans at writing code for sure but even the best SOTA model is worse than your average intern at memorization.
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You might well end up being right, but if you are, I believe it'll be because "most developers" will have become worse at programming, not because GenAI has become massively better.