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People have written so much shit about this that writing more just feels like pissing into an ocean of piss but in brief, AI code:
In the spirit of the GNU project re-defining well-known acronyms and abbreviations, I've noticed developers on the Guix mailing lists referring to LLMs as "License Laundering Machines."
Your points are all correct but for the first one.
The dangerous thing about LLM-generated code is not that it generally looks correct but isn’t. The danger is it oftentimes is correct and oftentimes isn’t.
The fact that it can be actually correct is dangerous. It lulls actual programmers into a false sense of security with it. It makes them cognitively lazy. And then when it turns out that it produces something wrong it slips by.
And even worse, what it assuredly does is convince bosses and non-programmers that THEY are correct and know even better than people who actually studied programming and learned the craft!
I never believed “anyone can code” was a worthwhile goal or objective, one that was aggressively pursued and promoted in the 2010s. Perhaps anyone can. Maybe anyone can be a mathematician. Maybe anyone can be an electrician. But I always saw it for what it was: a naked attempt to devalue the skill of programming and make the labor for it cheap.
Now anyone can be tricked into thinking they can code. Good or bad, it doesn’t matter. The software is about to get a lot worse.
Yeah sorry just never thought about this. But sounds like it would be shitty even if someone self hosted their own llm for it.
A lot of it is about how it's used. I think the second point is the most important. A lot of [software] engineering is familiarity with the topic and tools used. The mental map of the architecture of how everything fits together is powerful, and giving that all up to an LLM is a huge loss if you are using it to write anything more than a basic function.
In my practice in use it in a couple spots:
Using it more than that feels like a heavy risk of brain drain to me.