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> 2000 lines is 10x more time consuming to review than 200 Very far from the truth in practice, every line of code isn't as difficult/easy to review as the oth
by embedding-shape 6mo ago
> 2000 lines is 10x more time consuming to review than 200
Very far from the truth in practice, every line of code isn't as difficult/easy to review as the other.
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- jimbokun 6mo agoBut why would the lines in the 2000 case be easier to review per line?
- squeaky-clean 6mo agoWhich of these programs is easier to review {x{x,sum -2#x}/0 1} or def f(n): if n <= 1: return n else: return f(n-1) + f(n-2) They're both the same program
- jimbokun 6mo agoGood question. But it is orthogonal to the question of evaluating 2000 lines of AI code vs 200 lines of human written code. Either the human or the AI could produce idiomatic code for either language, given sufficient training data in the AI’s corpus for the language. My guess is that the first one is much quicker to review, for a human equally fluent in both languages.
- mcmcmc 6mo agoHoly shit, read the words I wrote. Ceteris Paribus. Assume the 200 lines and 2000 lines have a similar distribution of complexity.
- badc0ffee 6mo agoRomanes eunt domus