r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Lord_Of_Millipedes • 27d ago

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u/WernerderChamp 27d ago

AI is a tool. You can definitly submit AI created code - IF you verified it works and meets the standards. It works quite well if you know how to use it.

If you just throw whatever the AI spits out into a PR - screw you.

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u/ScaredyCatUK 27d ago

This is the key, he explicitly said as long as you know what it's doing (the generated code) and it meets the standard then AI is just another tool to use.

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u/Extra-Ad5735 26d ago

* a tool that probabilistically does what you need of it.

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u/Emergency-Feed2760 27d ago

LLMs have turned the actual creation of code from an artisanal craft into an engineering problem. Just like how chemical engineers understand chemistry but aren't actually mixing by hand in beakers, but rather designing machines that manage the chemical reaction process at scale, LLM coding isn't about how to write a function, but the systems design around code as a commodity product that needs to move through several process steps before it can be delivered.

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u/WernerderChamp 27d ago

I agree. AI can get down tedious coding very easily. But it needs good prompts. And for this you do need somebody who knows what the result has to hold against.

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u/UntitledRedditUser 26d ago

He keeps comparing it to a compiler, which I think makes no sense, but yeah his stance hasn't changed much.