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by wffurr 15 days ago
"Trust" - what level of review does the output need to meet your standards of correctness?

Donald Knuth's code would be much more likely to meet my standards during a code review than some LLM output.

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> Donald Knuth's code would be much more likely to meet my standards during a code review than some LLM output.

Just to nitpick - will it actually? I don't know what your relationship with Donald Knuth is, but to the extent I'm familiar with him and his approach to work, I would expect that even if I could afford him, I would not be able to get him to agree to accept my coding standards, whereas I found that LLMs (although flawed in many ways) can be cajoled relatively effectively to adopt my particular standards.