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by highspeedbus 696 days ago
LLMs help bootstrap ideas where developer lack skill. By this very nature, that generated, not totally understood code is the worst thing you can put in production. The fact that it will be put in production by the metric ton is a guarantee that any initial gains in speed will be offset by countless hours of desperate debugging. And for that, LLMs are useless, in my experience.
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This. The adoption of LLMs for code generation, even with this statement well understood, feels inevitable, and there's going to be some amazing consultancy work fixing the garbage that gets put near production.
Have you used Claude Opus or Sonnet 3.5 by anychance?
You sound crazy.