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solid_fuel • yesterday at 11:08 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

You may be living in a bubble. There are tons of developers still coding by hand, and many industries that don't trust machine generated code in general.

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HDBaseT • yesterday at 11:11 PM

It does raise the question, what percentage of programmers are predominantly writing code by hand? Is it higher than 50%?

tty456 • yesterday at 11:15 PM

Do they also not trust their code review processes?

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semiquaver • yesterday at 11:38 PM

  > many industries that don't trust machine generated code in general.
Which ones? Why wouldn’t careful human code review and extensive test coverage suffice? I work in one of the most conservative and highly regulated industries in the country. My company and every single one of my peer companies I have knowledge of has transitioned to almost exclusively 100% LLM-generated code (with plenty of human review).

I don’t live on a coast and I have a large and broad social network. I don’t know anyone who still mostly codes by hand except the small amount needed to preserve some aspect of their skills. I’m sorry to say that if I did I’d consider them foolish. Even a very restrictive workflow where you used an LLM to specify granular edits you intend to make is vastly faster than doing it by hand. And the level of test coverage and depth you can achieve now is simply life-changing.

It’s much more likely that you are not a professional, or you are the one in a bubble.

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