IDEs have been auto completing braces, inserting imports and generating framework boilerplate for decades.

We don’t need AI for this and it’s 10x the compute to do it slower with AI.

LLMs are useful but they aren’t a silver bullet. We don’t need to replace everything with it just because.

The most important thing is to put out a press release about how half your code is written by AI.

LLMs can count words (and letters) just fine if you train them to do so.

Consider the fact that GPT-4 can generate valid XML (meaning balanced tags, quotes etc) in base64-encoded form. Without CoT, just direct output.

Logically, it couldn't be 50% since that would imply that the other 50% would be open brackets and that would leave 0% room for macros.