Submitted 2 months ago by chknbwl@lemmy.world to [deleted]
By “good” I mean code that is written professionally and concisely (and obviously works as intended). Apart from personal interest and understanding what the machine spits out, is there any legit reason anyone should learn advanced coding techniques? Specifically in an engineering perspective?
If not, learning how to write code seems a tad trivial now.
my dad uses this LLM python code generation quite routinely, he says the output’s mostly fine.
For snippets yes, ask him to tell it to make a complete terminal service and see what happens
I use LLMs for C code - most often when I know full well how to code something but I don’t want to spent half a day expressing it and debugging it.
ChatGPT or Copilot will spit out a function or snippet that’s usually pretty close to what I want. I patch it up and move on to the tougher problems LLMs can’t do.
No. To specify exactly what you want the computer to do for you, you’d need some kind of logic-based language that both you and the computer mutually understand. Imagine if you had a spec you could reference to know what the key words and syntax in that language actually mean to the computer.
Ai is good at completing ai low effort ai generated Pearson homework while I spend all the time I saved on real projects.
Writing code is probably one of the few things LLMs actually excell at. Few people want to program something nobody has ever done before. Most people are just reimplimenting the same things over and over with small modifications for their use case. If imports of generic code someone else wrote make up 90% of your project, what’s the difference in getting an LLM to write 90% of your code?
I see where you’re coming from, sort of like the phrase “don’t reinvent the wheel”. However, considering ethics, that doesn’t sound far off from plagiarism.
WraithGear@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Its the most ok’est coder with the attention span of a 5 year old.