So you do agree? If you are having to review and correct then it's not really the LLM writing it anymore. I have little doubt that you can write good Typescript, but that's not what I said. I said LLMs cannot write good Typescript and it seems you agree given your purported actions towards it. Which is quite unlike some other languages where LLMs write good code all the time — no hand holding necessary.
Exactly. You can write good Typescript, no doubt, but LLMs cannot. This is not like some other languages where LLM generated code is actually consistently good without needing to become the author.
And that's also a decent barometer for what it's good at. The more amount of critical assumptions AI needs to make, the less likely it is to make good ones.
For instance, when building a heat map, I don't have to get specific at all because the amount of consequential assumptions it needs to make is slim. I don't care or can change the colors, or the label placement.
If you set up restrictive linters and don't explicitly prohibit agents from adding inline allows, most LOC will be allow comments.
Based on this learning, I've decided to prohibit any inline allows. And then agents started doing very questionable things to satisfy clippy.
Recent example:
- Claude set up a test support module so that it could reuse things. Since this was not used in all tests, rust complained about dead_code. Instead of making it work, claude decided to remove test support module and just... blow up each test.
If you enable thinking summaries, you'll always see agent saying something like: "I need to be pragmatic", which is the right choice 50% of the time.
But it's not all bad news. TIL about Parameters<T>.
