Comment by pmdrpg

This op ed suggests that it’s easier to audit a huge amount of code before merging it in than is to write the code from scratch. I don’t know about anyone else, but I generally find it easier to write exactly what I want than to mentally model what a huge volume of code I’ve never seen before will do?

(Especially if that code was spit out by an alien copypasta that is really good at sounding plausible with zero actual intelligence or intent?)

Like, if all I care about is: does it have enough unit tests and do they pass, then yeah I can audit that.

But if I was trying to solve truly novel problems like modeling proteins, optimizing travel routes, or new computer rendering techniques, I wouldn’t even know where to begin, it would take tons of arduous study to understand how the new project full of novel algorithms is going behave?