Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes

    My cynical side suspects they may have been looking for
    a reason to dismiss the technology and jumped at the first
    one they found.

MY cynical side suggests the author is an LLM fanboi who prefers not to think that hallucinating easy stuff strongly implies hallucinating harder stuff, and therefore jumps at the first reason to dismiss the criticism.

What do you mean by "harder stuff"? What about an experimental DSL written in C with a recursive descent parser and a web server runtime that includes Lua, jq, a Postgres connection pool, mustache templates, request-based memory arena, database migrations and much more? 11,000+ lines of code with ~90% written by Claude in Cursor Composer.

https://github.com/williamcotton/webdsl

Frankly us "fanbois" are just a little sick and tired of being told that we must be terrible developers working on simple toys if we find any value from these tools!

Some free code review of the first file I clicked into - https://github.com/williamcotton/webdsl/blob/92762fb724a9035... among other places should probably be doing the conditional "lexer->line++"; thing. Quite a weird decision to force all code paths to manually do that whenever a newline char is encountered. Could've at least made a "advance_maybe_newline(lexer);" or so. But I guess LLMs give you copy-paste garbage.

Even the article of this thread says:

> Just because code looks good and runs without errors doesn’t mean it’s actually doing the right thing.

Okay so this is a personal opinion right? Like where is the objectivity in your review?

What are the hardline performance characteristics being violated? Or functional incorrectness. Is this just "it's against my sensibilities" because at the end of the day frankly no one agrees on how to develop anything.

The thing I see a lot of developers struggle with is just because it doesn't fit your mental model doesn't make it objectively bad.

So unless it's objectively wrong or worse in a measurable characteristic I don't know that it matters.

For the record I'm not asserting it is right, I'm just saying I've seen a lot of critiques of LLM code boil down to "it's not how I'd write it" and I wager that holds for every developer you'll ever interact with.