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It's hard to address just one point for how messed up this seems, but the first thing that stands out is that I would guess the code volume of this process has
by solaire_oa 2y ago
It's hard to address just one point for how messed up this seems, but the first thing that stands out is that I would guess the code volume of this process has to be unsustainable.
Humans themselves tend to write new code instead of using old code- a common problem- but with sensible code structures and CI, code will grow at a sustainable rate.
LLMs continuously barf a steam of new code, never deleting anything. Then you need to provide the barf as context, and the cycle surely must continue until it falls apart. How has this not happened yet?
- TranquilMarmot 2y agoYes - writing code myself, whenever I need to do something substantial the first question I ask is "is there already a function in this codebase somewhere that does this, or does something close enough to it that I can just tweak it?" and most of the time there is! AI will just write a new function every time. You can also ask it to write tests, but I think that AI-written test coverage of AI-written code is just asking for trouble. When it breaks, you'll probably just ask an AI to fix it.