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by syndicatedjelly 724 days ago
With all due respect to your experience, please don't go around saying that. I don't know why people like to brag about not understanding things. As professional software engineers, this belief makes us sound incompetent, not humble.
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There’s an ability to understand. Most coders really have no clue how their code works. It’s not a brag, nor incompetence. Does your average dev really understand the underlying instruction set? LLM are like having a team of junior devs. I can quickly skim it, test it, ship it. I’ve worked in all sorts of safety related code. I would trust ai code over some of the crap I’ve seen (and probably wrote myself)