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eloisantyesterday at 11:02 AM2 repliesview on HN

If you truly think LLM are not useful tools for programming, you haven't tried the right tools.


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jeltzyesterday at 11:10 AM

That is not the same topic. LLMs are useful tools, and that is despite them producing fucking awful code.

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roblablayesterday at 11:22 AM

I tried a lot of tools. Claude code, deepseek with kilocode and OMP, codex... I still use claude quite a bit. But frankly, all of them produce some absolutely godawful code. Review load went way up with AI, and it's not just the volume that caused it, but also the quality. It's extremely verbose, hard to read, often repeats code instead of factoring it into reusable components. And yes, sometimes it's also buggy. Except now, you have to debug a problem that's in code you didn't write yourself, and is awful to read.

LLM is incredibly valuable for debugging complex problems, codebase exploration, and planning large changes. But the writing code part itself, I find, LLMs are just not very good at it yet.

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