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tripleee • yesterday at 8:59 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Why can't LLMs be used for long-term care of a software project?

This seems to be more on the tool-wielder than the tool.

Linux itself is receiving LLM-assisted code (a quick search saying 20% at the moment, although I don't know how accurate that is)


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TuxSH • yesterday at 10:15 PM

LLM use != vibe coding (latter should be reserved to "cattle" projects)

One can use LLMs to find vulns and/or review hand-written code, for example. But to answer your question, one doesn't understand code they didn't design nor write themselves.

d_silin • yesterday at 9:09 PM

LLM don't care. Humans do, but humans with LLMs are more prone to "drive-by" style of software development or substituting "expensive" ingredient (human time and attention) with "cheap" one (LLM tokens).