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Do even slightly competent programmers ever actually commit LLM-generated code as is rather than using it as a clue for ideas on how to possibly do something? I

Do even slightly competent programmers ever actually commit LLM-generated code as is rather than using it as a clue for ideas on how to possibly do something? I thought only people with zero coding skills would just copy paste, everyone else would want to change a lot.

amazingman 2y ago
Of course not. I'm not sure why this scenario is such a popular straw man. GenAI in the programming domain is augmentative. There's a whole bunch of cognitive work that isn't necessarily _reasoning_ that nonetheless needs to be done for a given task. GenAI is fantastic at yak shaving. Used skillfully, GenAI is good for shortening the distance to understanding. Is this worth the energy costs and downstream environmental and social impact of the technology? I ... I'm not sure. Probably not. But it's here, it's useful, and it's not going back into the bottle.