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points by anonymous908213 1 day ago | 0 comments

> The result of the study is only a description of how the IDE looks and behaves: which menus exist and in what order, which options each dialog holds, how the Message window tracks errors, and what the diagnostics say.

LLM-generated blogpost. The stench is all over it.

[–] mrlonglong 1 day ago

That's true but LLMs are a massive time saver when generating unit tests and other useful things for your work, leaving you free to write what really matters.

[–] bayesnet 20 hours ago

Building useful tests are probably one of the things that LLMs are the worst at tbh. You end up with tests checking `2 * 2 == 4` and similar.

[–] flykespice 18 hours ago

Having a LLM also generate your unit tests defeats the purpose of checking whether a LLM generated piece of code is sound.

There will always need a human on the end to check if the LLM didn't hallucinate anything on it, including manually writing the unit tests.

[–] lume 1 day ago

Stop whining. LLMs are available to everyone. If you think you can do better, then go ahead and do it instead of criticizing people who are actually getting things done.

[–] cors-fls 1 day ago

This is not "getting things done", it is not a useful project. It is one of the interesting projects that one would do to show mastery of a hard technical topic (compiler), to learn, and to impress fellow programmers. Doing it with an LLM makes it just completely useless

[–] ranger_danger 20 hours ago

> Doing it with an LLM makes it just completely useless

There can be other valid perspectives than your own.

Different people code for different reasons.

Some see it as a means to an end... "I want X as an end result and I don't care how I get it."

Others see it as an art form and something special to them; their sense of worth is tied to their knowledge and experience in something that not just anyone can do (without an AI).

OP uses an LLM because they just want the end result. You might write code for different reasons entirely. Neither is "wrong" or "useless."

[–] canelonesdeverd 20 hours ago

The whining will continue until boosters get it. If the things you're "getting done" are even remotely valuable then you can spare the brainpower to use your words.