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bonziniyesterday at 4:07 PM1 replyview on HN

They write garbage if you turn off your brain. They write code as good as yours if you work together.


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noisy_boyyesterday at 4:55 PM

I broadly agree with you about improving quality through working together. But even with tons of discussion, they still write code that seems fine from a distance but is weird when you actually get down to actually reading it and thinking about it, line by line. It is not junk but sure as hell I can write tighter and cleaner code and I am a very mediocre programmer. The abundance and frequency of "what, why?!" and "why not just..." reactions I have at LLM code throughout the day has made that much clear to me.