4 ms·
So are we finally past the stage where people pretend they're actually reading any of the code their LLMs are dumping out?
by duskdozer 7mo ago
So are we finally past the stage where people pretend they're actually reading any of the code their LLMs are dumping out?
- fhd2 7mo agoWho's "we"? I'd consider shipping LLM generated code without review risky. Far riskier than shipping human-generated code without review. But it's arguably faster in the short run. Also cheaper. So we have a risk vs speed to market / near term cost situation. Or in other words, a risk vs gain situation. If you want higher gains, you typically accept more risk. Technically it's a weird decision to ship something that might break, that you don't understand. But depending on the business making that decision, their situation and strategy, it can absolutely make sense. How to balance revenue, costs and risks is pretty much what companies do. So that's how I think about this kind of stuff. Is it a stupid risk to take for questionable gains in most situations? I'd say so. But it's not my call, and I don't have all the information. I can imagine it making sense for some.
- empath75 7mo agoIn a year people will be complaining about human written code going into production without LLM review.
- rsoto2 7mo agothe industry is in full psychosis
- Gigachad 7mo agoI don't believe the junior devs on my team even run the code they are generating, let alone read it. Feeling like I'm doing 5x the work reviewing and testing that the person submitting has.
- icoder 7mo agoAnd I bet the impact of your review work on their development into medior/senior goes towards 0. I recognize this discrepancy where review effort becomes more than the coding itself. I don't think I could sustain that for long.
- Gigachad 7mo agoI have been looking at some way to reduce the burden on me and put it back on the developer submitting. So far I’ve been asking them to split their wall of code PRs down in to multiple smaller ones, and soon I’ll probably ask them to demo to me the feature working because I can’t assume they did this themselves.