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You've missed the point.

• geraneum 4mo ago
  The point doesn’t seem to have been thought through.
  • munksbeer 4mo ago
    The point is, if road engineers changed their process and materials, and to you it felt like driving on the same road, with the same wear and tear and potholes, you wouldn't even notice. If AIs can generate code that looks ridiculous to humans but over time has the correct performance, the correct behaviour, no-one outside of software engineers will know or care.
    • skydhash 4mo ago
      > The point is, if road engineers changed their process and materials, They do those in labs, and then studies are made to prove that it can replace the current composition. They do not invent those on the spot and let the drivers QA the road. > If AIs can generate code that looks ridiculous to humans but over time has the correct performance, the correct behaviour It’s on you to prove that this big “if” can be realized. A -> B only matters when A is true.
      • munksbeer 4mo ago
        > It’s on you to prove that this big “if” can be realized. A -> B only matters when A is true Not really. This is a discussion about what code looks like if AI can write applications that are as good, stable, correct as humans. I think they can, better than most programmers at the moment, with the correct guardrails and supervision. But in time, I think we may not need to review the code at all, but instead verify correctness and performance only. The AI can write the code however it likes. Obviously I don't have a proof for this, but based on the progress I've seen so far, if someone forced me to bet one way or the other, this is what I'd bet on.
    • mitxela 4mo ago
      But they don't. LLMs can't understand messy code much better than humans can. Maybe a little, but not enough to compensate for the code they create being messy.