Being Left Behind Enjoyer@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
It’s always “AI is great for generating boilerplate code” and never “why do we even need boilerplate code, maybe programming is broken”
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
The one good use I’ve seen for LLMs in programming is to spot missing abstractions. If an LLM can generate code for a particular task, it means that this task has been repeated enough times that it should be factored out.