alt Hacker NewsThat’s not what we’re talking about, though. That’s mechanical transformation, and isn’t the same thing as code that’s generated on demand from scratch, based on plain-language intent.
Surely you know the difference, right? I assume you’ve used LLMs to generate code by now?
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verdverm • today at 6:45 PM
It's still code generation, a compiler also generates code, why do you sound like you are arguing LLMs are the only path to generating code now?
DarmokTanagra • today at 3:19 PM
So “create an express app boilerplate, make no mistakes” requires attribution but “npx express-generator myapp” does not?
The bar for “writes code for you” is very low.
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And what is the good old autocomplete feature? Do you attribute it authorship, too?
Is a series of matrix multiplications on a token vector not a mechanical transformation?
Where is the point where you start to anthropomorphize it?