They would not do it in the span of a day or a week. But I’ve definitely seen something like that happen over a period of multiple months.

The llm just allows to generate faster.

We can feel smug about that but all it means is that we need to be clearer on our requirements and preferences up front.

State that similar functions should be in one place and there should be only one. Today there has to be compelling reason why that function is different from others. Normalise the function name based on what it does. Why are there different ones?

Then there are all the other guard rails in place.

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