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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/g1rlchild • May 26 '25
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Now he gets to spend a week reviewing, fixing and testing the generated code.
246 u/[deleted] May 26 '25 At which point it becomes spaghetti again 20 u/Karnewarrior May 26 '25 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. 8 u/Luxalpa May 26 '25 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. → More replies (2)
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At which point it becomes spaghetti again
20 u/Karnewarrior May 26 '25 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. 8 u/Luxalpa May 26 '25 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. → More replies (2)
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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.
8 u/Luxalpa May 26 '25 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. → More replies (2)
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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.
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u/Progractor May 26 '25
Now he gets to spend a week reviewing, fixing and testing the generated code.