I often find it faster to write something from scratch rather than to work with someone else’s code to fix it. In the latter case I need to understand the intent, the whys behind the choices.
Well guess what, LLM-generated code is someone else’s code: an amalgamation derived from many peoples’ code. Except those people are ‘helpfully’ “abstracted away” from you by the middleman, so you can’t know their original intents and choices. What’s worse, it’s someone else’s code that will be treated as your code—unlike working with a legacy system that everyone knows was written by some guy, in this case any bugs will be squarely on you.
Well guess what, LLM-generated code is someone else’s code: an amalgamation derived from many peoples’ code. Except those people are ‘helpfully’ “abstracted away” from you by the middleman, so you can’t know their original intents and choices. What’s worse, it’s someone else’s code that will be treated as your code—unlike working with a legacy system that everyone knows was written by some guy, in this case any bugs will be squarely on you.