Comment by phatskat

> The truth of the matter is that the vast majority of software engineers write crap code, as the definition of "crap code" is "something I would have done differently".

This is certainly a part of it, but I do wonder that even if an LLM “learned” the conventions and preferences of an engineer and spit out “perfectly styled” code, would it be treated as such? I’d wager (a small amount) that it wouldn’t, because part of enjoying the code - for me - is _knowing_ the code. “I wrote it this way because I tried X, then Y, then saw I could do Z, and now I’m familiar with the code in a way that’s more intimate.” Unfamiliar code rarely looks like _really good_, in my opinion.