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by pigeonwarz 31 days ago
Perhaps not, but if an LLM is being used it is better to be honest than not, in my opinion.

It's not out of attempting to make your work look any worse than it is, but a fundamental respect for the audience that read your code. I understand the power of LLMs, hell I'm using one to write some of my own software and diligently reading the code it generates and designing the architecture around it myself, but I would always try and be honest about what went into the code that I'm showing someone.

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For ethical principles I 100% agree with you. I used LLMs to generate parts of the code, but the architecture, integration, debugging and testing are mine. It took me months in my free time. So, what can I say to be 100% honest?
It's likely if you lead with this and acknowledged that there will be issues of the sort identified in the thread within your code the feedback you've got wouldn't be as harsh.
You're right, starting with that context would have helped. It's an experimental project and of course there will be imperfections, whether written by me or with LLM assistance. I did my best.