alt Hacker News> We can stop reading LLM-generated code just like we don’t read assembly, or bytecode, or transpiled JavaScript; our high-level language source would now be another form of machine code.
My opinion is very close to this. Currently the reason that it's bad to not reviewing/testing the code LLMs generated is because the LLMs can sometime generate bad codes. But it's a bug that can be improved. One day you'll have LLMs generating code consistently better than what a human could write. And then you just stop needing to review them. (And that's probably also the time where most programmers/developers got fired too)
Don't get surprised if anyday the LLMs starts to generate binaries directly. THAT will be impossible to read and costs more time to analyze.
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Is it possible to reason or prove the correctness of an LLM?
> Currently the reason that it's bad to not reviewing/testing the code LLMs generated is that the LLMs can sometime generate bad codes.
Sometimes?
I am heavily into vibe coding and I think they almost always generate bad code. At least as soon as you're distant enough from the code to call it vibe coding.
When you're still in touch with the code, have at least been recently talking to it about code rather than 100% about features, and its context is filled with good code, it can generate good code.