Depending on how willing I’m with recording myself, I will either record a video essay, or at least write some article about the subject. I will also do some research into permissive and “more rational” AI policies of open source projects and them becoming sponsored by AI vendors (there’s a very sad trend there).
While Rust is not my main language, I can understand it enough to compare it to well formatted Rust code, as well as will use Rust to showcase why natural language programming is bad and confusing even though we’re taking keywords from natural languages (and
letis a great example of that, especially how Rust uses it). I already seen Bun, and forgot about it🤪.The problem with slop code is not superficial.
The game the machine is playing is " reproduce text that looks like all the other text you’ve seen before". As such the code will look good, read well, etc. The problem is that the problems are hidden. Incongruent logic between parts of the same program. Subtle “unintentional” behaviour. Bug fixes which force an outcome rather than remove a fundamental issue.
Apart from excessive verbosity it can be hard to see the issues.