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by AdieuToLogic 259 days ago
> The Kernighan law says debugging code is twice as hard as creating it.

> Therefore, if you push yourself to the limit of your abilities to create the most clever code you can, you won't be able to debug it.

If only advocates of LLM-based code generation understood this lemma.

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Is LLM output the kind of clever we're talking about here? I always thought the quote was about abstraction astronautics, not large amounts of dumb just-do-it code.