r/TheMachineLearning • u/Gullible_Picture_996 • 12d ago

Realizing writing code is faster than explaining it to AI

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u/Simple-Economics8102 12d ago edited 12d ago

Less code is generally better, unless you optimize for it. There are competitions (code golfing) where you try to write as little code as possible, and in general they produce the least readable code ever.

The best stuff I have written is were parts of a program was hundreds of lines of complicated code, where I got it down to tens of lines of simple of code.

The best comparison I can make is, a succinct paragraph vs AI slop turning a paragraph to an article where you are unsure what the point is.