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notepad0x90 ◴[] No.43236385[source]
My fear is that LLM generated code will look great to me, I won't understand it fully but it will work. But since I didn't author it, I wouldn't be great at finding bugs in it or logical flaws. Especially if you consider coding as piecing together things instead of implementing a well designed plan. Lots of pieces making up the whole picture but a lot of those pieces are now put there by an algorithm making educated guesses.

Perhaps I'm just not that great of a coder, but I do have lots of code where if someone took a look it, it might look crazy but it really is the best solution I could find. I'm concerned LLMs won't do that, they won't take risks a human would or understand the implications of a block of code beyond its application in that specific context.

Other times, I feel like I'm pretty good at figuring out things and struggling in a time-efficient manner before arriving at a solution. LLM generated code is neat but I still have to spend similar amounts of time, except now I'm doing more QA and clean up work instead of debugging and figuring out new solutions, which isn't fun at all.

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sunami-ai ◴[] No.43237808[source]
Worst part is that the patterns of implementation won't be consistent across the pieces. So debug a whole codebase that was authored with LLM generated code is like having to debug a codebase where ever function was written by a different developer and no one followed any standards. I guess you can specify the coding standards in the prompt and ask it to use FP-style programming only, but I'm not sure how well it can follow.
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QuiDortDine ◴[] No.43238272[source]
Not well, at least for ChatGPT. It can't follow my custom instructions which can be summed up as "follow PEP-8 and don't leave trailing whitespace".
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jampekka ◴[] No.43239996[source]
In don't think they meant formatting details.
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1. johnisgood ◴[] No.43240256[source]
It is supposed to follow that instruction though. When it generates code, I can tell is to use tabs, 2 spaces, etc. and the generated code will use that. It works well with Claude, at least.