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by abalashov 40 days ago
> A generated piece of code is linguistically plausible but often unknowingly imitates common idioms so incoherently that the actual bug may be accidentally disguised in a way no sane human (even a bad programmer) could have come up with.

Came here to say this, but you said it for me. When you are an infinite code generator and your only parlour trick, your only hammer, is generation, and every nail is a problem of as-yet-insufficient generation, then generate you shall.

But the cognitive burden of metabolising this ultra-verbose, circuitous, often brute-force excreta is quite a bit higher than thumbing through a (competent) human's relatively terse approach.