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an0malous • yesterday at 7:48 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I wouldn't say current AI/ML tools are great at managing complexity, they create a lot more complexity per lines of code output than a good engineer would

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jdiff • yesterday at 9:01 PM

    this.fooA = Foo(arguments);
    this.fooB = Foo(arguments);
    this.foos = [this.fooA, this.fooB];
    this.foo = instances;
Real code written by a real frontier LLM asked to implement and attach two Foos to my Bar. fooA and fooB are referenced, the rest were just dead code.