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gamblor956 • today at 7:58 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I read so blantant lies like AI "writing code better than me" maybe better than you! But in general it's just a big lie.

Those weren't lies. The AI does produce better code than those people. They simply weren't very good programmers to begin with.


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ryandrake • today at 8:47 PM

Exactly. Someone on HN put it really succinctly earlier in the year: "LLMs look like they are good at things you are not good at."

I think this goes a long way to explain why there is such a huge difference in opinion about the quality of AI-written code: Some people say LLMs write code far better than they could, and others say the code is always terrible and requires a great deal of fixing before it's acceptable. How can two different developers say those very different things about the same product?

It might be a tough pill to swallow, but if you think your LLM is producing better code than you could produce... well, I might have some bad news for you about your own skills.

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