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Foobar8568yesterday at 6:13 AM6 repliesview on HN

LLM code is higher quality than any codes I have seen in my 20 years in F500. So yeah you need to "guide" it, and ensure that it will not bypass all the security guidance for ex...But at least you are in control, although the cognitive load is much higher as well than just "blind trust of what is delivered".

But I can see the carnage with offshoring+LLM, or "most employees", including so call software engineer + LLM.


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_0ffhyesterday at 11:35 AM

Huh, that explains a lot about the F500, and their buzzword slogans like "culture of excellence".

LLM code is still mostly absurdly bad, unless you tell it in painstaking detail what to do and what to avoid, and never ask it to do a bigger job at a time than a single function or very small class.

Edit: I'll admit though that the detailed explanation is often still much less work than typing everything yourself. But it is a showstopper for autonomous "agentic coding".

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112233yesterday at 10:14 PM

Uhuh. Let me present you Rudolph. For the next 15 minutes, he will paste pieces of top rated SO answers and top starred GH repos. Then he will suffer complete amnesia. He might not understand your question or remember what he just did, but the code he pastes is higher quality than any codes you have seen in your 20 years in F500! For 20$ a month, he's all yours, he just needs a 4 hour break every 5 hours. But he runs on money, like gumball machine, so you can wake him with a donation. Oh, you are responsible for giving him precise instructions, that he often ignores in favour of other instructions from uncle Sam. No, you can't see them.

theszyesterday at 6:48 AM

  > LLM code is higher quality than any codes I have seen in my 20 years in F500.
"Any codes"?
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mettamageyesterday at 7:41 AM

Giving it prompts of the Shannon project helps for security

m3kw9yesterday at 3:10 PM

Offshoring pretty much guarantees a couple vibe coders will be there to operate

queenkjuulyesterday at 3:43 PM

You've worked at some shitty places. Nothing I've seen from Claude matches even my worst coworker (and my last job was an F500)