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I think the whole codebase was more or less written by AI...
by nialv7 5mo ago
I think the whole codebase was more or less written by AI...
- segmondy 5mo agothat ship has long sailed, "it no longer matters" saying a codebase, an article was written with AI doesn't mean much, it could be good, it could be bad. folks often say it to generate outrage, but that means nothing. is the codebase great, good, bad, terrible? that's the only thing that matters.
- fwip 5mo agoAnd an LLM-written codebase is strongly correlated with a terrible codebase. So much so, that it's rarely worth your time to seriously evaluate it.
- jaggederest 5mo agoEven as someone who uses a lot of AI, if you can't be bothered to at least give it a prompt like "Go through the documentation and comments in detail and remove any obvious AI shibboleths like emdashes, it's not x it's y, rule-of-three, 'delve', excessive grandiosity and flourishes, boldness, bullet points, etc", you should receive a brisk kick in the rear.
- jameslk 5mo agoI'd be curious to know if there is a list of these "AI shibboleths" somewhere
- jaggederest 5mo agoNot really but they jump right out at you after a few minutes chatting with it. I also asked the AI and it was pretty subjectively accurate, especially if you force it to cross reference with web searches and especially google's ngram corpus (you can readily see that 'delve' and some of the other rhetorical constructs are quite uncommon in human speech)
- tyushk 5mo agoWikipedia maintains a list of smells for LLM text. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing
- ramon156 4mo agoI feel bad about most of my comments since this is the thing I say too. If you can't be bothered to write shit, why would I read your shit?
- simonklitj 5mo agoMight be the only thing that matters to you. And, perhaps, the only thing that matters in a functional sense. But, whether it’s human-coded/written or not matters deeply to some.
- lionkor 5mo agoNo, it's always bad. It's just on a spectrum of how competent is the viewer (you and me) to notice how bad it is. It's all shit, the question is whether you are skilled and experienced enough to tell.