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> Managing a codebase written by an LLM is difficult because you have not cognitively loaded the entire thing into your head as you do with code written yoursel
by pier25 1y ago
> Managing a codebase written by an LLM is difficult because you have not cognitively loaded the entire thing into your head as you do with code written yourself.
I don't think that's the main reason. Well written code is easier to follow even when you haven't written it yourself (or maybe you did but forgot about it).
- skeeter2020 1y agoI argue you still need to cognitively load the solution, it's just that well written code allows you to (a) segment the code base effectively and (b) hold it at a higher level of abstraction.
- pier25 1y agoAbsolutely. The comment I was responding to argued the difficulty was that LLM code wasn't loaded cognitively. I'm arguing the problem is actually the code produced by LLMs tends to be messy and hard to follow beyond trivial examples.