Mark LevisonFeb 4

AI is making us write more code. That's the problem.

I analyzed research papers on AI-generated code quality. The findings:

→ 1.7x more issues than human-written code
→ 30-41% increase in technical debt
→ 39% increase in cognitive complexity
→ Initial speed gains disappear within a few months

We're building the wrong thing faster and calling it productivity.

Show threadGothmogFeb 5
@mlevison I use LLMs to help me with basic code writing tasks, generating the structural frameworks, saving me a lot of typing time. However, I never rely on that code out of the box, I always review it thoroughly and often just snip and prune. I would never attempt to give an LLM a complicated set of instructions, it's going to fail every time.
Show threadalways tiredFeb 5

@crackhappy @mlevison

Couldn't human made deterministic tools (or changes to programming languages) help with boilerplate work instead of indeterministic intransparent generative AI?

Show threadalways tiredFeb 5

@crackhappy @mlevison

IIRC for some languages there also have been deterministic refactoring tools too that take over the tedious parts of refactorings (like "rename method" which exactly identified callers to adapt them).

Show threadGothmogFeb 5
@project1enigma @mlevison I think you're a bit in the weeds on this.
Show threadalways tiredFeb 5

@crackhappy

What does that mean?

Show threadGothmog
@project1enigma Overthinking it.
Feb 5 at 1:44pmWeb
Show threadalways tiredFeb 5

@crackhappy

Oh ok. Thanks but no thanks for being judgmental about my thinking process.

Show threadGothmogFeb 5
@project1enigma I apologize for offending you. That is not my intention.