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> There is no substitute for high quality work. That's where you get it wrong. The world is full of mediocre and low quality work in many, many fields. We all
by boplicity 6mo ago
> There is no substitute for high quality work.
That's where you get it wrong. The world is full of mediocre and low quality work in many, many fields. We all, in fact, depend on mediocre work in many ways.
Many, many people would prefer a solution with mediocre or even bad code than no solution at all while they wait for "high quality work" that never appears.
The magic of LLMs, especially as the technolgy improves, is that a truly mind boggling number of solutions to problems will be created with thoroughly mediocre (or worse!) LLM generated code. And the people benefitting from those solutions won't care! They'll be happy their problems are being solved.
- deaux 6mo agoNo, you see, this is impossible, as I've been taught here on HN by the wise elders over and over. As soon as a pristine codebase is tainted by even 1% of LLM-generated code, any chance at potential user value instantly disintegrates. Especially if it claims to do anything remotely novel! But seriously, the denial is incredible to watch. Our product wouldn't exist without LLMs, and our users are vocally thankful that it does, saving them time and money and helping them reach their offline goals. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47505428 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47505428 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47476893 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47476893 Among countless others