alt Hacker News> Trusting an LLM to take care of that looks like negligence to me.
You are of course entitled to hold your opinion. How to work with LLMs successfully will be determined by those who believe it’s possible rather than those who argue it’s fundamentally negligent, though.
The arguments against AI coding have rapidly evolved from “it’s not possible” to “it’s possible but breaks down as soon as the system gets complex” to this “it works but it’s negligent” argument. The industry will continue to move on.
This is my oldest comment[0] on the AI tools subject back in December 2022
> Coding may be abstract, but execution of the resulting program is not. And results of the execution is driven by real world needs. Truth is that a human can invent things because it can pattern match across whole domains. You can say there is a mechanic solution to that, how can we do an algorithm that have the same result. AI cannot unless the algorithm was already created. I think the current state of AI is great for searching and creating starting point, but it can never get us to the finish line.
I've not seen anything since then that has changed my point of view. My job as a developer is always about creating pragmatic solutions for problems that exists outside of the computer world. I'm not attached to code and will gladly rewrite it if it's lacking or faulty. But the actual purpose is to get something that works well in the hand of the user. But the user's needs are not static, so I also create something that is flexible enough to be able to adapt it later when those needs changes.
So when I read comments that says they don't care about code, but also have no answer about how they will solve their user's problems or how will they modify the software to future changes, it seems so strange to me. Like is your belief backed by real world experience?
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33873394