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as someone who uses ai to help on researching an issue/question - i have no understanding whyvpeople just submit generated code. i realize i just dont use it to generate stuff. i use it to find stuff.
when this forst came out, i thought non devs would use it for creating an app that they use at home just for them. but no, i constantly see people posting about their project and trying to getvpeople involved. a project fully generated by an llm. or as in the issue here, generating code to be merged into a project..why? i jist dont get it.
I don't think it's very hard to understand. It reduces the up-front cost of development.
To be more specific, it trades up-front development cost and building competence for knowledge gaps and maintenance hell.
Not always. Prototyping can be valuable in many circumstances when you don't know the shape you'd like the code to take. Sometimes you need to try something before you know if it's right. I'd rather throw away prototype code written by an LLM than code I had to write the hard way.
Yes always. To paraphrase Feynmann: What you did not create, you have not understood.
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No.
If you consider writing your own code "the hard way", then your goal should be becoming better at prototyping yourself. It's a skill that you need to requires purposeful effort to strengthen. But once you have it, you get both the understanding behind the code and the prototype.
Ok it occurs to me that people use this like they use a spellinng/grammar checker in a word processor.
Spellcheck:
LLM coding:
Regardless of other opinions of it, they see it as a tool that helps take the effort out of getting ideas into reality.
Asking LLM to turn "idea" (instead of detailed spec) into a gigantic codebase is like asking your spell checker to write your essays.
You missed the part where they are SUPPOSED to meticulously review the "solution" themselves and have deep foundational understanding of what's going on to know if it's a good solution or not.
Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's not useful when the person lacks the ability to fully vet the solution before passing someone else to review. That just makes them middlemen. When instead the actual maintainer or reviewer could have done the same thing but have that foundational understanding.
Back to linkedin corpo boy
Not all of us are doggedly against LLM, it's just the LLM-haters that are preponderantly loud. They are like the anti-feminists that have to show up in every post about women.