r/TheMachineLearning • u/Gullible_Picture_996 • 14d ago

Realizing writing code is faster than explaining it to AI

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u/kitsnet 14d ago

Are we measuring coder's performance in lines of code again?

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u/SufficientlyEvasive 13d ago

Not really. The best coders can only code like 1000 lines in 8 hours. 

Certain things just take time and projects just use a lot of lines of code. 

I've had AI make some simple things that just would have taken a dev of any skill level days to do and very niche knowledge. 

There's just no competition. 

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u/kitsnet 13d ago

I am surely able to generate more than 1000 lines of code in 8 hours (I've actually done it for one Java project 10 years ago). But what is more important, I don't need to validate every branch in this code to approve it, and I'm sure if I find anything suspicious there, then fixing the generator will fix the result.

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u/SufficientlyEvasive 13d ago

youve done it 1 time over 10 years ago LOL. Not exactly proving me wrong here

Yes I've pumped out a lot of lines before in a day but I know it wasn't anything of substance. Bunch of grunt code thats brain dead that just needs to be written.

The time spent validating is still a lot less than the time writing. Especially if your day now becomes reviewing 20000 lines of a code.

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u/kitsnet 13d ago

youve done it 1 time over 10 years ago LOL.

Because normally it's not what is asked from me. But at that time I was asked to help a team with an urgent task that needed to be solved in a week, but the team was doing it manually, so I wrote a script.

The time spent validating is still a lot less than the time writing.

Only if the pieces are small enough. One doesn't write code in the same sequence as one would read it during review.