as someone who uses ai to help on researching an issue/question - i have no understanding whyvpeople just submit generated code. i realize i just dont use it to generate stuff. i use it to find stuff.
when this forst came out, i thought non devs would use it for creating an app that they use at home just for them. but no, i constantly see people posting about their project and trying to getvpeople involved. a project fully generated by an llm. or as in the issue here, generating code to be merged into a project…why? i jist dont get it.
I don’t think it’s very hard to understand. It reduces the up-front cost of development.
To be more specific, it trades up-front development cost and building competence for knowledge gaps and maintenance hell.
- 22 hours
Ok it occurs to me that people use this like they use a spellinng/grammar checker in a word processor.
Spellcheck:
- They have an idea.
- They type up the idea.
- They run spellcheck and it churns through their document and it fixes mistakes that it can see.
- They send it to someone for review.
LLM coding:
- They have an idea.
- They type up the idea.
- LLM churns on the idea and spits out a solution-of-sorts.
- They send it to someone for review.
Regardless of other opinions of it, they see it as a tool that helps take the effort out of getting ideas into reality.
Edit: Oh wait, this is c/programming. Fuck. Ok, give me 5 minutes for me to sharpen my pitchfork and come up with something that matches the groupthink, I’ll be right back.
