Personally I think LLMs did only produce garbage code. Not coincidentally, the same upgraded LLMs that have gotten so good at finding bugs are also much better at not writing bugs. Especially if you make them review their own work. They still have a hard time with code design, though.
replyThat is not the take-away. LLMs are finding potential bugs in code. People are using LLMs to create potential fixes which people then test, confirm and implement.
replyDisagree. The takeaway is that software is much harder to write correctly and securely than almost everyone has internalized. The amount of vulnerabilities released in the past couple weeks makes me think writing software by hand will soon be not only uneconomical, but mostly irresponsible.
reply> makes me think writing software by hand will soon be not only uneconomical, but mostly irresponsible.
replyHuman-written code isn’t inherently buggy, and LLM-written code isn’t inherently bug free. What is irresponsible is shipping code you don’t understand, and that will only increase with LLM-written code. A major reason why so much of the world’s software sucks is precisely that we think of it in terms of what’s “economical” and not what’s good or right. What we need is to slow the fuck down and stop treating every facet of life like a transaction. Software is filled to the brim with dude bros who “move fast and break things” and actively exploit people as their business model and somehow are called “the brightest minds of our generation”. Our priorities aren’t right.
I claimed that at time when LLM were producing only and solely garbage code.
replyI am not doing it anymore.