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> Every line deliberate. Crafted like poetry. Human-authored entirely. This is perhaps overly generous to pure-human authorship. These days, when I write code
by yjftsjthsd-h 8mo ago
> Every line deliberate. Crafted like poetry. Human-authored entirely.
This is perhaps overly generous to pure-human authorship. These days, when I write code I like to think I know what it does. I still wouldn't call most of it "crafted like poetry". When I was just learning though, I wrote plenty of code 100% without AI (in fairness, it didn't exist) that I had little understanding of, and it was only "deliberate" in that I deliberately cajoled it into passing the tests.
Or put differently: don't conflate human authorship with quality; people can write garbage without needing AI help.
- anematode 8mo agoIndeed. I like to call this form of code organic slop, and it predates the LLM era.
- zimpenfish 8mo ago> don't conflate human authorship with quality If you're thinking "crafted like poetry" implies any kind of existential "quality", I'd like to introduce you to William McGonagall[0] and you will swiftly and powerfully be disabused of any "poetry -> quality" confusions. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McGonagall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McGonagall
- yjftsjthsd-h 8mo agoRegardless of whether poetry actually has anything to do with quality, I think it's reasonable to think that the author intended "Crafted like poetry" as a positive description.
- zimpenfish 8mo ago> the author intended "Crafted like poetry" as a positive description. Yes and it's a fine way to describe a process positively! Crafting something implies care, thought, etc. It just doesn't have anything to say about the quality of the resultant output.