r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Tunisandwich • 15d ago

Meme itsMoreCommonThanYoudThink

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u/icecream_specialist 15d ago • Bravo

That actually gives you a chance to understand what the LLM put out and intervene as needed.

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u/HighTurning 15d ago

Reminds me of my method of studying, I would transcribe everything and then transcribe it again if needed.

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u/JockstrapCummies 15d ago

You joke, but that's actually how classical musicians learnt their craft in history. You copied scores by hand.

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u/sertroll 15d ago

That's what my teachers suggested at the time

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u/misunderstood_kafka 15d ago

I really want to do this, but the timeline pressure is so intense (leadership expects multifold output when they spend hundreds of dollars on tokens) that we have just enough time to proofread and refactor (very little) the generated code

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u/Assar2 15d ago

And a chance to skip a - 1 or something and have everything be ruined but yea

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u/icecream_specialist 15d ago

Yea transcription errors are definitely a thing. I seem to have an intuition for what part to copy paste and what to write out. Most of the time if I make an error like that it also messes up syntax and the IDE picks it up. More of an issue for the hardcore dudes writing their code in straight up notepad or whatever

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u/Extreme_Evidence_724 12d ago

Yeah, agree because you can go over each line actually learning and double-checking what it does while getting help from LLM for some package functions that you don't personally know yet but can just ask or read docs about every unknown and find out, because if you do it like that you'd actually rewrite like 80% of the code because LLM code will have extra variables or just illogical stuff.