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> and it's quite enjoyable Used to be somewhat enjoyable. Nothing pleasant about digging around codebase that was heavily affected by the last 12-18 months of AI-ing.
We have a tool at work that was entirely spun out of a prototype that itself was entirely driven by a single guy with an unlimited Claude budget. I only touch it on the edges, where I need to integrate it every so slightly into one of my systems. It's a crucial piece of software for the team, though. I've looked over the source, the thing that strikes me the most is the verbosity. Human software engineers would've be…
In all fairness, LLMs try to write the code with all the safeguards imaginable, all exceptions handled and following the SDK/language/framework guidelines.
So a lot of this verbosity is good, even if we aren't used to it, because almost no one writes their code so exhaustively.