You always have to wonder if they even have the skills to debug the thing in the first place. Having tested generated code or code suggestions, its just like the age old practice of copying code off a google search. You need the skills to at least understand what the code does and why its the right implementation for what you want to achieve.
Exactly! It’s not even that revolutionary in my eyes… heck that’s effectively what it does most of the time.
But nevertheless, it can write a ton of code and it will for the most part achieve what you want. It’ll still need to be reviewed, trimmed down and optimized. To me it’s just like a college essay. I can write 2000 words in a 20 minute blitz as I am sure any decent dev can write a ton of lines in the same amount of time. Is it going to be any good? Is it going to be acceptable for the level you are writing? A college paper of 2000 words I’ll rewrite 4-5 times and keep maybe as much as a paragraph’s worth of text from the original draft.
Like what I just wrote above, I could probably condense into a few lines if I was trying to make it a ‘‘professional’’ statement rather than casual writing. There’s these degrees of competence that I think LLMs haven’t reached yet.
You always have to wonder if they even have the skills to debug the thing in the first place. Having tested generated code or code suggestions, its just like the age old practice of copying code off a google search. You need the skills to at least understand what the code does and why its the right implementation for what you want to achieve.
No different then copying questions from stack overflow.
Exactly! It’s not even that revolutionary in my eyes… heck that’s effectively what it does most of the time.
But nevertheless, it can write a ton of code and it will for the most part achieve what you want. It’ll still need to be reviewed, trimmed down and optimized. To me it’s just like a college essay. I can write 2000 words in a 20 minute blitz as I am sure any decent dev can write a ton of lines in the same amount of time. Is it going to be any good? Is it going to be acceptable for the level you are writing? A college paper of 2000 words I’ll rewrite 4-5 times and keep maybe as much as a paragraph’s worth of text from the original draft.
Like what I just wrote above, I could probably condense into a few lines if I was trying to make it a ‘‘professional’’ statement rather than casual writing. There’s these degrees of competence that I think LLMs haven’t reached yet.