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Claude Code creator says Claude wrote all his code for the last month

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Re: Claude Code creator says Claude wrote all his code for the last month

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IMHO it's very misleading to claim that some LLM wrote all the code, if it's just a compression of thousands of peoples' codes that lead to this very LLM even having something to output.

Is a human engineer not the same way?

Re: Claude Code creator says Claude wrote all his code for the last month

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honestly i've been becoming too lazy, I know exactly what I want and AI is at a point where it can turn that into code. It's good enough to a point where I start to design code around AI where it's easier for AI to understand (less DRY, less abtractions, closer to C)

And it's probably a bad thing? Not sure yet.

Re: Claude Code creator says Claude wrote all his code for the last month

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IMHO it's very misleading to claim that some LLM wrote all the code, if it's just a compression of thousands of peoples' codes that lead to this very LLM even having something to output.

Is a human engineer not the same way?

No. LLMs can only reorder what they've seen in training data in novel ways. Humans can have original ideas that aren't in their training data. As a trivial example, John Carmack invented raycasting for Wolfenstein 3D. No matter how much prompting you could have given an LLM it could never have done that because there was no prior art for it to have been trained on.

In pragmatic terms though, innovation like that doesn't happen often. LLMs could do the things that most developers do.

That said, I don't agree with the notion that LLMs are simply generating content based on their training data. That ignores all the work of the AI devs who build systems to take the training data and make something that creates new (but not innovative) things from it.

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