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My colleagues write 10x less code for the same tasks (when they don't (ab)use AI) and don't reach past abstraction boundaries so that it's possible to actually reason about and review their work. When the problems get hard, they apply more care and attention to detail. Even if LLMs had the same bug rate per SLOC (IME it's higher), and even if those bugs were the same severity (IME they're worse), you'd still expect 10x bugs just because they can't be arsed to write a reasonable amount of code.

Almost all my code nowadays is AI-written, with me just contributing the concurrent data structures, a good spec, and some review and touch-up. I'm not _that_ much of a Luddite about this stuff. I'm not blind either though. Your "working together" comment does a lot of heavy lifting when arguing against a post saying that leaving the LLM to its own devices is a bad idea.

parent hansvm 28 days ago

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