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by patates 746 days ago
> a language that they lack experience in

Perhaps also the tooling because any remotely decent IDE should show an error there, let alone the potential warnings of some code analysis software.

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Who needs static analysis when you can put your trust in a magic robot?

(This is one thing that baffles me about the “let’s use LLMs to code” movement; a lot of the proponents don’t seem to be just adding it as a tool (I don’t think it’s a terribly _useful_ tool, but whatever, tastes differ), but using it as the only tool, discarding 50 years worth of progress.)