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>No, the code is actually almost always correct

That's not my experience, especially when the inputs are bugs or performance issues. It frequently hallucinates and misdiagnosis without a guiding hand. However, it can still RCA and analyze well and improve efficiency if you keep an eye on what it's doing and push it the right direction.

> If you were to give human developers the same amount of feature/scope documentation you would also see your productivity skyrocket.

I think you run into a ceiling how fast a person can digest and analyze the info compared to a machine

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What tools are you using? What settings? What process? What's your code review like?

I think this varies a lot. I find with a c++ project I'm working on that the LLM needs a lot of guardrails and guidance, and still gets a lot wrong. But with a vite/js project it often one shots complex and intricate changes in large codebases.

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> Almost 2 decades in IT and I absolutely do not believe this can ever happen. And if it does, it’s so rare, it’s not even worth talking about it.

It happens completely routinely, IME. Just compare how much effort it takes to clone a system that's already written versus making that system from scratch.

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