Comment on Are LLMs capable of writing *good* code?

• 667@lemmy.radio ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I used an LLM to write some code I knew I could write, but was a little lazy to do. Coding is not my trade, but I did learn Python during the pandemic. Had I not known to code, I would not have been able to direct the LLM to make the required corrections.

  In the end, I got decent code that worked for the purpose I needed.

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  • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I would not trust the current batch of LLMs to write proper docstrings and comments, as the code it is trained on does not have proper docstrings and comments.

    And this means that it isn’t writing professional code.

    It’s great for quickly generating useful and testable code snippets though.

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    • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It can absolutely write a docstring for a provided function. That and unit tests are like some of the easiest things for it, because it has the source code to work from

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