alt Hacker News but my anecdotal experience is that LLM written
software is very reliable and easy to extend and
develop.
Too much discourse creates a false dichotomy of "awesome, wonderful, hand-crafted code" vs "shitty AI slop."
A lot of hand-crafted code is pretty bad. This is true even with talented engineers: there are often edge cases they did not think of... and in many cases, could not have thought of.
And AI code is pretty good if it's steered and vetted by a knowledgeable engineer. It is clear to me, and has been clear for a long time, that "talented engineer plus AI" is the winning combination and will remain that way for at least the near future.
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ncphillips • today at 9:19 PM
Yeah let’s be real there was a ton of slop around before AI
I still review PRs, all of which are written by agents. I almost never have meaningful feedback to offer unless it's feedback on the architectural approach. And even then, a lot of architectural/coding patterns that I've been a stickler for in the past mean less to me now because those patterns served to create maintainable code for human beings, which just isn't a priority anymore.