Comment by sarchertech
9 days ago
Ok so you disagree with the person that kicked this off with
“Reading code is vastly quicker than writing it from scratch”
9 days ago
Ok so you disagree with the person that kicked this off with
“Reading code is vastly quicker than writing it from scratch”
Only if you're not very good at reading code. If you've invested a lot of effort in improving your code reading and code review skills you can work a lot more productively with LLMs than people who don't have good code reading skills.
So you think that reading code is harder, but if you put in equal amounts of practice at reading and writing code you’ll get faster at reading code than writing code?
Sounds to me like you don’t think reading code is harder.
I think reading code is harder than writing code.
I think that if you put the work in you can get to a point where you are fast enough at reading and reviewing code that it's not a net productivity loss to have an LLM - or your coworkers and collaborators - write code for you to review, as opposed to insisting on writing every line of code yourself.
I'm a little surprised that my opinion about this is seen as controversial!
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