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> For now I have not moved past the point of comprehension being important to me. Ah ! This is me too... at least for what I have to ship at work. Not so much
by JodieBenitez 4mo ago
> For now I have not moved past the point of comprehension being important to me.
Ah ! This is me too... at least for what I have to ship at work. Not so much for my toy/weekend projects. But it turns out agents are also good at explaining.
- jazzypants 4mo agoI think it's insane to suggest that software developers should ever get to the point where they don't even comprehend their code. Before someone else says it, no I don't read the assembly code that is produced by my compilers. However, I can generally predict what kind of assembly will be produced, and the result is deterministic unlike LLMs. It seems like most vibe coders scoff at the idea of even looking at the code, and it just seems untenable to me when we're working with (usually correct) stochastic parrots.
- fartcoin67 4mo ago[dead]
- fc417fc802 4mo ago> the result is deterministic Well the result generally matches the input specification, something that an LLM is much less consistent about. I don't think it's deterministic in the sense of being able to predict a priori what the compiler will generate for a novel and nontrivial code block.