Comment by chamomeal

Formal methods are very cool (and I know nothing about them lol) but there's still a gap between the proof and the implementation, unless you're using a language with proof-checking built in.

If we're looking to use LLMs to make code absolutely rock-solid, I would say advanced testing practices are a good candidate!. Property-based testing, fuzzing, contract testing (for example https://github.com/griffinbank/test.contract) are all fun but extremely tedious to write and maintain. I think that makes it the perfect candidate for LLMs. These kinds of tests are also more easily understandable by regular ol' software developers, and I think we'll have to be auditing LLM output for quite a while.