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I think it's like that dunning-kruger idea. People who are bad at things don't know they're bad, and are poor judges of quality.
So someone who's kind of bad at coding isn't going to know or understand what the LLM puts out, so they won't fix as many issues.
Also humans are lazy, and when presented with something that looks good at a glance, we don't really want to dive deeper.
I saw a PR from someone today at work. Guy's nice but I don't think he's much of a programmer. He asked copilot to fix a warning. It did, and generated a linter error. So he asked it to fix that. It did, but for whatever reason decided to delete an entire function call.
Unfortunately that part of the code has no unit tests, so he just pushed it up for review. I look at it and I'm like if that call is important, don't delete it. If it can be deleted, remove the now-unused code around it. We'll see what he says.
He probably spent more time fussing with copilot than it would have taken to do it right in the first place.
The amount of people that have shown me their really low quality tattoo and believed it was really good work is way higher than people with legit good body art showing it off.
People will buy a $75 printed decor canvas of a plant from hobby lobby before buying real artwork from a local artist,
It was these experiences that made me the pretentious art snob I am today.
Most people don't know art appreciation.
Not even the base level critique that anyone should be able to do.
Precede the line with a
>to make a block quote.Thank you. I couldn't remember what symbol it was.
And precede it with # if you want to yell!