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!
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.
@dabeaz novelty of the code and shared patterns might play a role. With others’ code, you read something written by people you know and work with, or, in case of Open Source, by people you share idioms and contexts with. This is possible to get used to and stay on top of. Even better: this context stays in your head to use and reference later!
It’s not possible to get used to LLM output, because it’s stochastic and often overwhelming in volume. Nothing to ground oneself in, nothing to learn, nothing to feel belonging to.
David Beazley
Artyom Bologov