Comment by lobochrome

1 day ago

Object-oriented languages provide little value because a programmer’s job is to think

Memory-safe languages provide little value because a programmer’s job is to think

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skydhash  1 day ago

Using deterministic methods as counter arguments about a probabilistic one. Something apples, something oranges….

ahartmetz  1 day ago

Now this isn't a killer argument, but your examples are about readability and safety, respectively - the quality of the result. LLMs seem to be more about shoveling the same or worse crap faster.

  • dymk  1 day ago

    Have you tried an AI coding assistant, or is that just the impression you get?

    • ahartmetz  1 day ago

      I have seen the results of other people. Code LLMs seem to do some annoying stuff more quickly than manually and are sometimes able to improve prose in comments and such. But they also mess up when it gets moderately difficult, especially when there are "long distance" connections between pieces. That and the probably seductive (to some) ability to crank out working, but repetitive or partially nonsensical code, is what I call shoveling crap faster.

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