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0 pointskuschku1y ago0 comments

And 2 months later I get asked to debug code like yours when it doesn't work for a customer and have to spend days or weeks digging into your code before I notice the LLM took some shortcuts that work most of the time, but are ever so slightly broken in edge cases, followed by me having to rebuild it all from scratch.

I literally just spent a full week on such a project. Respectfully, fuck people who don't read the docs/spec.

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csomar1y ago· 1 in thread

Respectfully, I don't understand what your problem is. First, you don't have to debug any code. That's your personal choice. Second, whether LLM are used or not is irrelevant. The original developer is the party that decides to check and double-check his work and whether he extensively verified what the code is doing (and maybe tightly tested it). LLMs are not making this worse or better.

kuschkuOP1y ago

First:

> First, you don't have to debug any code. That's your personal choice.

To quote the Simpsons:

> Money can be exchanged for goods and services

Second:

> LLMs are not making this worse or better.

The bottleneck is never "writing code", it's "thinking". LLMs can solve one, but not the other. They allow you to produce more thought (and give you false confidence), but the code has less thought put into it, making it worse.

roland351y ago

Maybe it's easier to verify a working program with the docs rather than try to build something from scratch? I agree it's a bad idea to fire off AI code without any sort of understanding though!!

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