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by 0x20cowboy 164 days ago
I think this article misses the mark from the people in my circle.

We don’t care about “clean code” (thats mostly just juniors yak shaving into a slow system anyway). We care about correct code -code that is solving the actual problem (as close to correct as possible anyway).

Using an LLM and expecting it to be more than 60-70% is a bad idea. And using it “as a tool” - we have a hard time believing a dev reviewed, understood, and verified 130,000 line PRs every day.

Additionally, it is still unclear if the generated code violates licenses / actually “becomes” your IP.

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Last time I worked in an enterprise software development setting there was unhealthy obsession with "clean code" and "best practices" (of course, never specifying which best practices) and "governance" and "leadership".

And nobody was worried about correctness beyond the obvious.