Comment by throwawayffffas
2 days ago
> Hearing people on tech twitter say that LLMs always produce better code than they do by hand was pretty enlightening for me.
That's hilarious LLM code is always very bad. It's only merit is it occasionally works.
> LLMs can produce better code for languages and domains I’m not proficient in.
I am sure that's not true.
I think it says more about who's still on tech twitter vs. anything about the llm....
It seems true by construction. If you're not proficient in a language than the bar for "better than you" is necessarily lower.
If you are an experienced developer in general your code will in general be better than an LLMs even in languages you are not proficient. The LLM code might be more in keeping with the languages conventions but that does not make the code automatically superior. LLMs typically produce bad code in other dimensions.