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I used to think exactly what this article says, but now I'm really not sure. Code that runs and works (as in, does what it's asked to do) isn't "bullshit" at a

• zerbinxx 3y ago
  To play devil’s advocate: have you never reviewed a PR and said “yeah this works and completes the ticket but you REALLY shouldn’t be doing it like this”? There’s a pretty big gulf between functional and correct in a world where optimization matters. This is not always the case (strictly, i.e. algorithmically speaking), but you should be optimizing for things like reusability, testability, etc. which GPT-generated code can miss.