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by qsera 69 days ago
The whole shtick of LLMs is that it can do stuff without telling it explicitly. Not sure why people are blamed because they are using it based on that expectation....
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Yes, it can. So can I. But neither of us will write the code exactly the way nitpicky PR reviewer #2 demands it be written unless he makes his preferences clear somewhere. Even at a nitpick-hellhole like Google that's mostly codified into a massive number of readability rules, which can be found and followed in theory. Elsewhere, most reviewer preferences are just individual quirks that you have to pick up on over time, and that's the kind of stuff that neither new employees nor Claude will ever possibly be able to get right in a one-shot manner.
Sure, but that is not what the OP talks about.