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Comment by coldtea

>“Finding out that it doesn't” means that you didn’t properly reason through the code beforehand, checking all your assumptions against what the code and underlying systems are actually guaranteeing. This may be a matter of formal education (proving computer science theorems and algorithmic correctness in university), I don’t know.

We're not writing theorems, dude.

Except in the equally pedantic sense that every program is a proof to a theorem...

We're writing plain enterprise and web software, closer to CRUD than NASA.

If you said that even before LLMs 0.1% of teams "checked all assumptions against what the code and underlying systems are actually guaranteeing" in any kind of formal way, you'd be overestimating it.

parent coldtea 1 month ago

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