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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"

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

@ted.dev

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.

21/6/26, 5:31 pm4 reposts7 likes

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.