Comment by yjftsjthsd-h
1 day ago
> Every line deliberate. Crafted like poetry. Human-authored entirely.
This is perhaps overly generous to pure-human authorship. These days, when I write code I like to think I know what it does. I still wouldn't call most of it "crafted like poetry". When I was just learning though, I wrote plenty of code 100% without AI (in fairness, it didn't exist) that I had little understanding of, and it was only "deliberate" in that I deliberately cajoled it into passing the tests.
Or put differently: don't conflate human authorship with quality; people can write garbage without needing AI help.
> don't conflate human authorship with quality
If you're thinking "crafted like poetry" implies any kind of existential "quality", I'd like to introduce you to William McGonagall[0] and you will swiftly and powerfully be disabused of any "poetry -> quality" confusions.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McGonagall
Indeed. I like to call this form of code organic slop, and it predates the LLM era.