Comment by __mharrison__
6 hours ago
Curious what simon thinks about using an LLM to work on Django...
I've used an LLM to create patches for multiple projects. I would not have created said work without LLMs. I also reviewed the work afterward and provided tests to verify it.
> This isn’t about whether you use an LLM, it’s about whether you still understand what’s being contributed. What I see now is people who are using LLMs to generate the code and write the PR description and handle the feedback from the PR review. It’s to the extent where I can’t tell if there’d be a difference if the reviewer had just used the LLM themselves. And that is a big problem.
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> If you use an LLM to contribute to Django, it needs to be as a complementary tool, not as your vehicle.