The tools do a shit job at that final 20% of a project. An absolutely shitty job.
AI makes programming differently difficult
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Re: AI makes programming differently difficult
#152Definitely not my experience. No matter the model, if I'm working on something important (and there is little reason on working on something not important) I do care about correctness and understandability. While LLMs are great for throwaway one-time code (although that's also debatable), they cannot compete with code written by a seasoned professional. No matter how many times I've tried delegating writing code to L…
One thing that I find frustrating/disturbing about LLM generated code is that wrong stuff doesn't usually look wrong, so you almost have to review it even closer than what you'd review from a person. Like in the past when a developer was being sloppy, usually you could kind of tell superficially, but with LLM code it's usually well documented and superficially well structured, all while doing batshit insane things. L…
Too true. I realized that the only way to do an actual review is to have wrote it yourself in the first place. The relatively slow speed of writing code reflects the amount of subtleties and effort to think through all of them. Only when LLMs are used as hint givers, are they actually doing an essential speedup. This goes to show how shallow programming and code review had always been. The right impression is that of studying real analysis.
Re: AI makes programming differently difficult
#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
"sought"
They need to improve their spec on writing responses on Hacker News. Or maybe typos are an improvement by design to look human / increase engagement. Not suggesting anything, but I'm wondering where the culture of having obvious misspellings without editing them out became the norm on HN. It's become the new em dash warning flag for me on forums.
nobody cares about good spelling or expression any more, and haven't done for a long time, "as long as you understood then it must be ok, right?"
depressing directions.
Re: AI makes programming differently difficult
#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
They need to improve their spec on writing responses on Hacker News. Or maybe typos are an improvement by design to look human / increase engagement. Not suggesting anything, but I'm wondering where the culture of having obvious misspellings without editing them out became the norm on HN. It's become the new em dash warning flag for me on forums.
nobody cares about good spelling or expression any more, and haven't done for a long time, "as long as you understood then it must be ok, right?" depressing directions.
Why use more word when less do trick?