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> It's better then incompetents code, worse then a motivated average dev... That's well put. > But good enough hence the real question is value aka time& money invested/quality. Th…

> I think "absolute crap but still useful to me" is a pretty high value and not worth neglecting If I extrapolate this example to my professional life, this code now manages millio…

AI is great at reducing the search space and using human-like reasoning (in a brute-force way) to carry out the brute-force search. I'm not surprised by this result. This is exactl…

There's a big difference between one shotting a counterexample using AI and using AI to find a counter-example by brute-force. Both are impressive, of course, but they're hardly co…

> has fewer bugs who claimed that? Are you suggesting that the rewrite did not introduce any new bugs? The correct answer is, by the way, that no one knows since it's millions of l…

It's not even about requirements. It's about responsibility. Someone has to take responsibility for the code and the product. Someone has to hotfix a bug that's costing millions of…

Ever heard of the infinite monkey theorem? This is basically what LLMs do on really hard tasks. Prompt it a million times on a really hard problem and it might output the correct a…

People will downvote you because this comment is "not appropriate" for HN, but there were countless conversations on HN about how important these benchmarks are. I am literally LOL…

> AI is also scarily good at writing tests :-) I hope you read those tests before claiming it's "scary good"

> This is a forum filled with experts Half of HN commentators probably work on basic CRUD. Armchair experts, maybe.

This is such a bad take. I'm impressed how often this gets parroted online. Next time, please check how many Poles left Poland for western EU since they joined.

yeah. In the future when? 2, 3, 5 years from now on? Do you think current LLMs don't get confused by shitty code? That code they're writing now will need fixing tomorrow, not 5 yea…

I have the same feeling ever since his infamous LLM OS post

> I'll make more progress than mentally wearing myself out reading a bunch of LLM generated code trying to figure out how to solve the problem manually. Most engineers realize that…

> I'll make more progress than mentally wearing myself out reading a bunch of LLM generated code trying to figure out how to solve the problem manually. I feel sorry for whoever ha…

Totally agreed, this has been and will continue to be a problem for all existing models. > Like are programmers and engineers using LLMs completely differently than I'm doing No, b…

Good luck arguing with SWE benchmark purists

> what's needed is knowledge of solution techniques That's definitely in the training data

Ah right! Reminds me of AGI by 2025 :D

> The idea that code is something sacred and only devs can somehow do it is dying, and I personally love it, as I am watching it enable so many of my friends and family who have no…

Yeah, good luck trusting the output!

Yeah, that's indeed a hot take. I am curious what kind of code you write for a living to have an opinion like this.

> well it actually implemented a normalization pipeline and a tax computing engine which then did the taxes, but close enough You can't seriously believe laymen will try to impleme…