Comment by maplethorpe
2 days ago
Yeah I think it's a mistake to focus on writing "readable" or even "maintainable" code. We need to let go of these aging paradigms and be open to adopting a new one.
2 days ago
Yeah I think it's a mistake to focus on writing "readable" or even "maintainable" code. We need to let go of these aging paradigms and be open to adopting a new one.
In my experience, LLMs perform significantly better on readable maintainable code.
It's what they were trained on after-all.
However what they produce is often highly readable but not very maintainable due to the verbosity and obvious comments. This seems to pollute codebases over time and you see AI coding efficiency slowly decline.
> Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture which says that any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken for a sincere expression of those views.
The things you mentioned are important but have been on their way out for years now regardless of LLMs. Have my ambivalent upvote regardless.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
as depressing as it is to say, i think it's a bit like the year is 1906 and we're complaining that these new tyres for cars they're making are bad because they're no longer backwards compatible with the horse drawn wagons we might want to attach them to in the future.
Yes, exactly.
This is a completely new thing which will have transformative consequences.
It's not just a way to do what you've always done a bit more quickly.
Do readability and maintainability not matter when AI "reads" and maintains the code? I'm pretty sure they do.
If that would be true, you could surely ask an LLM to write the same complexity apps in brainfuck, right?