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No, there are millions upon millions of mediocre lines of code out there. And LLMs tend to converge on mediocrity. Which is totally fine.
by OtomotO 6mo ago
No, there are millions upon millions of mediocre lines of code out there.
And LLMs tend to converge on mediocrity. Which is totally fine.
- ChrisMarshallNY 6mo agoI find that there’s a surprising amount of really good stuff out there. PHP has come of age. Actually, it’s been a backbone technology for millions of professional sites and apps for many years, and people tend to work in the open. Sort of the nature of the language. There’s a popular perception that PHP programmers are bad programmers, but that’s a dated point of view. Pros have been using it to make serious money, and create serious infrastructure, for many years.
- OtomotO 6mo agoI am not dissing PHP, I am saying that the absolute majority of any code out there is mediocre and not super good and not super bad.
- ChrisMarshallNY 6mo agoI get the feeling that there’s a lot more “mediocre-to-good” PHP code (probably C, as well), than Swift. I see terrible Swift code, frequently. It’s the kind of language that encourages “clever” approaches (as do most new languages), and these are favorites of less-experienced devs.