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.
This seems interesting and relevant to my exhaustion comment.
If I install a third party package on a project, I'm probably not going to look at its code at all. Similarly, for a coworker, I'm probably not going to look all that closely at their code either.
In both situations, I'm starting from a place of "trust" which is very different than starting from a place of "suspicion."
In any case, having to keep an eagle-eye on everything all of the time doesn't seem very enjoyable to me.
David Beazley
Marcos Dione