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saagarjha • today at 11:14 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

> It's getting to the point that LLM produced code is indistinguishable from even the best handwritten code.

I think you should read more code ;)


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forty • today at 2:02 PM

Yeah when I read comments like this I'm thinking either the commenters did not actually bother reviewing the LLM code or they must have access to much better models than those I'm using (claude). Yesterday I reviewed 1500 lines of code which was reduced to 500 by just asking claude "why do we need this" on well chosen parts of the code 3-4 times, to which it would say things like "I made an optimization, but actually this doesn't pay for itself" then explain how the optimizations would actually make the whole thing slower...