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I've seen comments about accepting LLM-generated code in that we don't/can't understand it and excusing that because: "There's always code in the system that we don't understand"

21/6/26, 5:31 pm1 repost3 likes

Ted M. Young (he/him) aka @JitterTed

@ted.dev

21 June

Except, LLM-gen'd and human-written code are different. One was written by someone with a mental model. Modified by humans with another mental model (correct or not), etc. The other is generated by statistical, stochastic methods with constraints. These are not the same.

Ted M. Young (he/him) aka @JitterTed

@ted.dev

21 June

Want to use LLM-generated code? That's your choice. But don't argue that it's the same as code from 15 years ago, written by folks who had a human mental model, and made sense to them at the time.