I can't help but think that some of the arguments here apply equally well to writing _code_ as they to to other substantive writings.
Writing code is thinking, AI code is often vague and wrong in hard-to-notice ways, and the (human) reader of code is the one that pays the cost for this later.
The cost/benefit analysis may still work out differently for code though...
> I can't help but think that some of the arguments here apply equally well to writing _code_ as they to to other substantive writings.
All of the arguments here apply to writing code; Why would the quality of writing differe when writing prose vs code?
I cannot read LLM slop prose without getting mentally fatigued trying to figure out what it is saying, and I've discovered that the quality of the code it produces has the same effect on me.
vanschelven · · focus · HN ↗
Writing code is thinking, AI code is often vague and wrong in hard-to-notice ways, and the (human) reader of code is the one that pays the cost for this later.
The cost/benefit analysis may still work out differently for code though...
lelanthran · · focus · HN ↗
All of the arguments here apply to writing code; Why would the quality of writing differe when writing prose vs code?
I cannot read LLM slop prose without getting mentally fatigued trying to figure out what it is saying, and I've discovered that the quality of the code it produces has the same effect on me.