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Comprehension debt: A ticking time bomb of LLM-generated code

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duskwuff wrote: post #275
blackhaj7 wrote: post #222

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Sounds great - thanks for the recommendation. Looks like it is the second in a trilogy. Can you just dive in or did you read the first book before?

A Fire upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky are loosely connected; you can read them in either order. Both novels reveal some details which explain bits of the other. However, I would recommend skipping Children of the Sky . It's not as good, and was clearly intended as the first installment of a series which Vinge was unable to complete. :(

Good to know! Thanks

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leptons wrote: post #325
BobbyTables2 wrote: post #97

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Fully agree. I was once on a project where all the original developers suddenly disappeared and it was taken over by a new team. All institutional knowledge had been lost. We spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to figure out the original design. Introduced quite a few bugs until it was better understood. But also fixed a lot of design issues after a much head bashing. By the end, it had been mostly rewritten and…

I once took over a project that was built by someone in Mexico and all the function names and variables were kind of obscure Mexican slang words, and I don't know any Spanish. That was probably the most frustrating project I've ever worked on.

I’ve seen this on schematics too.

Foreign language signal names seemed unintelligible until a trilingual colleague pointed out what they meant (trivial things too!)

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