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Seems they need to compare against "dumb" code completion. It seems that even when they are error-free, "large" AI-code-completions are just boilerplate that sh
by ks2048 2y ago
Seems they need to compare against "dumb" code completion. It seems that even when they are error-free, "large" AI-code-completions are just boilerplate that should be abstracted away in some functions rather than inserted into your code base.
On a related note, maybe they should measure number of code characters that can be REMOVED by AI rather than inserted!
- sanex 2y agoAgree with the first sentence. I used to tell people I never type anything more than periods and two or three letters because we already had good autocomplete.
- williamcotton 2y agoboilerplate that should be abstracted away in some functions rather than inserted into your code base Boilerplate is often tedious to write and just as often easy to read. Abstraction puts more cognitive load on the developer and sometimes this is not worth the impact on legibility.
- calderwoodra 2y agoTotally agree - LLMs remove the tedium of writing boilerplate code, which is often a better practice than abstracted code. But it takes years to experience to know what that's the case.
- skydhash 2y agoCode generators and snippets template are your friends.
- pquki4 2y agoSay I'm faced with a choice right now -- repeat the same line twice with 2 minor differences which gets checked by IDE immediately, or create a code generator that generates all 3 lines which may not work well with the IDE and the build system which leads to more mistakes?