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I see you've never had to maintain code.
by nwalizer 3y ago
I see you've never had to maintain code.
- namaria 3y agoPrecisely my point. If you see code, or written language, just as something you dump in a box to get paid, creating code or text with LLMs makes perfect sense. If you realize code and language are ways to communicate asynchronously and conserve information across time and space to enable developing and maintaining systems, the apparent value of generic concatenation of words that looks good and functions but has not meaningful message conveyed drops off precipitously.
- selfhoster11 3y agoCode that doesn't run is just dead bytes. It's not useful for anything. Code that does run, even if impossible to comprehend without considerable research (like, say, DNA), is useful for something. You just cannot change its function. I have maintained code, and even wrote some terrible stuff myself. All I'm saying is that once you strip all the lofty ideas about what code should be (which are all very good ideas!), then you are left with the very simple core idea: code is supposed to run and do stuff.