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by missmoss 35 days ago
When working on an existing project, I always take a close look on what got changed by LLM. Sometimes I explicitly tell it which line to change and nothing else. Like what most people found, LLM sometimes, if not always, creates redundant over-engineering work trying to be useful, while most of time it actually breaks something, e.g. code quality and readability. In new projects, I focus more on plan, spec, test scheme. I review how modules are set up and sometimes functions, but pay less attention on implementation details.
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Interesting that you draw the distinction of "breaking something" at code quality -- your customers almost guaranteed don't see it this way, and don't care about the code at all. So your viewpoint is team-centric, which is admirable, but loses steam outside of that circle, no?