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Except you must have the underlying knowledge to effectively review code. So how that would obviate a career in programming is a strange choice by the grandpare
by birdyrooster 4y ago
Except you must have the underlying knowledge to effectively review code. So how that would obviate a career in programming is a strange choice by the grandparent commenter. Anyone can rubber stamp bad code, but to stop bad code from entering projects you need experts.
- aprdm 4y agoMost projects have plenty of bad code, nobody cares, as long as it solves the problem.
- ad404b8a372f2b9 4y agoThe bad code it produces is not just stylistically bad, it often doesn't solve the problem. It seems to be making the same kind of errors in code as we've seen in speech, you get a lot of plausible but subtly wrong hallucinated content that only someone who knows the subject can identify. It prefers probable output over matching the specifications so it'll add unnecessary branches just because it's seen them millions of times. Among errors I've seen it make there is bad indexing, adding conditions that serve no purpose or assuming a variable has a specific structure when it doesn't.