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by usrbinbash 394 days ago
> is borrowed comprehension,

Or would be, if the LLM actually understood what it was writing, using the same definition of understanding that applies to human engineers.

Which it doesn't, and by its very MO, cannot.

So, every line from an LLM that is accepted without understanding, is really nonexistent comprehension. It's a line of code, spat out by a stochastic model, and until some entity that actually can comprehend a codebases context, systems and designs (and currently the only known entity that can do that is a human being), it is un-comprehended.