alt Hacker NewsRight, but that cost is also incurred by human-written code that happens to have bugs.
In theory experienced humans introduce less bugs. That sounds reasonable and believable, but anyone who's ever been paid to write software knows that finding reliable humans is not an easy task unless you're at a large established company.
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verdverm • yesterday at 6:07 PM
There was a recent study posted here that showed AI introduces regressions at an alarming rate, all but one above 50%, which indicates they spend a lot of time fixing their own mistakes. You've probably seen them doing this kind of thing, making one change that breaks another, going and adjusting that thing, not realizing that's making things worse.
The question then becomes, can LLMs generate code close to the same quality as professionals.
In my experience, they are not even close.