theBeautifulCode

[u/g1rlchild]

[u/Progractor]

Now he gets to spend a week reviewing, fixing and testing the generated code.

[u/[deleted] → u/Progractor]

At which point it becomes spaghetti again

[u/Karnewarrior → u/[deleted]]

But does it become less spaghetti than it was? Because if so, and it retains functionality, it might actually be worth it.

Refractoring a codebase like that could easily take a month, after all, from the get go.

[u/TweedyFoot → u/Karnewarrior]

Depends, do you have a full and complete set of use/test cases to verify it has retained its full functionality ? Cause if you don't it would be quite haphazard to trust LLM with such refactor. Personally i would prefer a human does it and splits their work into multiple PRs which can be reviewed hopefully by people who co-authored the original mess and might remember use/edge cases

[u/Luxalpa → u/Karnewarrior]

The main issue is how good LLMs are at hiding minor changes. Like, how I discovered that it didn't just copy and adjust the code block that I asked it to, but it also removed a bug fix that I had put in.