David BeazleyFeb 26

So, I wonder which is harder to understand?

In one corner: A million lines of code from a CMM Level 4 organization generated by Rational Rose.

In the other corner: A million lines of code vibe-generated by four levels of agents.

LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE!!! .... Ding!

Show threadDavid BeazleyFeb 26

Hearing about developers becoming exhausted by reading the output of LLMs has me wondering if it's exposed the fallacy of that whole "programmers spend more time reading code than writing it" trope.

No, they don't. And they never have.

Oh, sure, developers spend a lot more time "seeing" code than writing it. I'll give you that. Kind of in the same way that someone looking out the window while riding on a train is going to see far more gardens than they'll personally ever plant.

Show threadDavid BeazleyFeb 26
Sometime people ask me why I don't want to do any more "expert witness" gigs. The main reason is that it was entirely focused on reading code. Actually *reading* code that I didn't write and trying to understand what it was doing. It was exhausting as all hell. No. I don't need that kind of day-to-day stress.
Show threadOwen Nelson
@dabeaz I'm impressed that people are asking this
Feb 26 at 1:53pmTusky