> The virtue of formal texts is that their manipulations, in order to be legitimate, need to satisfy only a few simple rules; they are, when you come to think of it, an amazingly effective tool for ruling out all sorts of nonsense that, when we use our native tongues, are almost impossible to avoid.
Hence, when communication via formal text results in nonsense, it is very clear that the originator of that nonsense is you. With LLM-generated code the nonsense may be much less obvious and when it does surface, you can feel like it's not your fault at all. You are a genius and the LLM fucked it up. No wonder all kinds of "developers" want their code generated by LLMs and don't even look at it anymore. It's the ultimate responsibility laundering.
Hence, when communication via formal text results in nonsense, it is very clear that the originator of that nonsense is you. With LLM-generated code the nonsense may be much less obvious and when it does surface, you can feel like it's not your fault at all. You are a genius and the LLM fucked it up. No wonder all kinds of "developers" want their code generated by LLMs and don't even look at it anymore. It's the ultimate responsibility laundering.