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sjajzhyesterday at 11:24 PM1 replyview on HN

You know we’ve had the ability to generate large amounts of code for a long time, right? You could have been drowning in reviews in 2018. Cheap devs are not new. There’s a reason this trend never caught on for any decent company.


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throwaw12yesterday at 11:28 PM

I hope you are not bot, because your account was created just 8 minutes ago.

> You know we’ve had the ability to generate large amounts of code for a long time, right?

No, I was not aware. Nothing comes close to the scale of 'coherent looking' code generation of today's tech.

Even if you employ 100K people and ask them to write proper if/else code non-stop, LLM can still outcompete them by a huge margin with much better looking code.

(don't compare it LLM output to codegen of the past, because codegen was carefully crafted and a lot of times were deterministic, I am only talking about people writing code vs LLMs writing code)

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