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If there are two partners and one is a million times faster than the other, are they both necessary? Who is going to pay a thousand times more for a thousand times less?
If the faster one creates naive, hard to discover bugs, is it really faster? I don't think we understand the long term consequences (or maintenance) of LLM generated code. So far the anecdotal results haven't been great.
I've become increasingly frustrated with having to work with other people's AI-"assisted" code. I can tell when I depart from reading sensible human-written code and enter the land of Copilot where all bets are off. Just yesterday I discovered that some environment variables someone had configured on a service weren't actually doing anything, because the service didn't support being configured via environment variables, let alone those particular ones. It's stuff like that which really gets me about all this: you can no longer assume a coherent theory of mind behind what you're reading. You can no longer trust that because something looks specific and intentional (like environment variable names), that it actually came from reality and not a confabulation. It's breaking the social contract that makes collaboration work.