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by al_borland 100 days ago
At the end of the day, the code is the only thing that matters. That is what defines, in concrete terms, what the program is doing. I don't view an LLM as a high level language, as we can run a prompt 10 different times and get 10 different results. This isn't valuable when it comes to programming.

Even without LLMs, there was a thought process that led to the engineer coming to a specific outcome for the code, maybe some conversations with other team members, discussions and thoughts about trade offs, alternatives, etc... all of this existed before.

Was that all included in the PR in the past? If so, the engineer would have to add it in, so they should still do so. If not, why do you all the sudden need it because of an AI involved?

I don't see why things would fundamentally change.