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David Beazley Feb 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!

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David Beazley Feb 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.

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David Beazley Feb 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.

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Omar Antolín Feb 26

@dabeaz I can understand that, it definitely sounds exhausting. But hey, at least you got one the best programming talks ever given out of that kind of work! You know what? I'm gonna go rewatch it right now. https://youtu.be/RZ4Sn-Y7AP8

David Beazley: Discovering Python - PyCon 2014

Speaker: David BeazleySo, what happens when you lock a Python programmer in a secret vault containing 1.5 TBytes of C++ source code and no internet connectio...

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Omar Antolín

@dabeaz I finished rewatching it and confirmed my opinion: it's a great story very well told and there's lots of wisdom sprinkled throughout.10/10, will watch again.