> Compare this to hallucinations in regular prose, where you need a critical eye, strong intuitions and well developed fact checking skills to avoid sharing information that’s incorrect and directly harmful to your reputation
Ah so you mean... actually doing work. Yeah writing code has the same difficulty, you know. It's not enough to merely get something to compile and run without errors.
> With code you get a powerful form of fact checking for free. Run the code, see if it works.
No, this would be coding by coincidence. Even the most atrociously bad prose writers don't exactly go around just saying random words from a dictionary or vaguely (mis)quoting Shakespeare hoping to be understood.
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