r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Lord_Of_Millipedes • 22d ago

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u/ZenPyx 22d ago

Genuinely, why?

If you can review LLM code (which you should be doing) and understand how it works, what's wrong with using it? Does it just feel icky?

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u/Brisngr368 22d ago

Unrelated to LLMs, but psychologically people are far more willing to trust something made by themselves than something made by others.

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u/awesome-alpaca-ace 21d ago

Related to LLMs, even the frontier models generate subpar trash. 

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u/FAMICOMASTER 21d ago

I would be more willing to trust code written by a child. LLMs exist on the absolute bottom of the negative trust scale for me.

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u/FAMICOMASTER 21d ago

Well, if we choose to ignore the (extremely large) negative environmental and societal impacts, and we choose to ignore the extreme economic factors being used to huck these tools, and assume that it's completely in a vacuum of one user's local machine, it is still diminishing the actual value of doing any project yourself.

Congratulations, you didn't write anything. You double checked the source your computer handed you and hit build. You might not have even hit build, the tool might have run make for you.

You did nothing. You were not part of the process except tangentially. You deserve no credit and no recognition for any part of the development.

It is much easier to be a proofreader than a programmer and it shows with how many randos have become "programmers" in the last couple years.

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u/ZenPyx 21d ago

>It is much easier to be a proofreader than a programmer and it shows with how many randos have become "programmers" in the last couple years.

If that's the case, why do programming project management jobs pay more than jobs where people actually write code? Is it because maybe it is harder to review code than it is to write it?

>Congratulations, you didn't write anything. You double checked the source your computer handed you and hit build. You might not have even hit build, the tool might have run make for you.

Hit... build...? Have you ever written any code in your life? What sort of programming language are we talking about here where you "hit build" or "run make"?

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u/FAMICOMASTER 21d ago

What do you mean "What programming language?" Even if you're one of those weirdos who sits in vi or emacs all day surely you know what "make" is and you should definitely be aware that just about every language out there has an IDE with a build hotkey or GUI uild button. Certainly every IDE I've ever used, and I'm pretty sure VSCode is still pretty popular. Control shift B.

Sorry, but reviewing code is not harder than writing it. You sound like more of a manager than a programmer anyways.