Mastodawn

Look this isn’t at all a defense of slop code, but it has me thinking — how much does code quality matter, and why?

It’s maintenance, right? We care about readability because we know we’ll have to make changes, fix bugs, etc.

But so … imagine a codebase that’s magically bug-free and feature-complete. (I’m aware this is a strawman - that’s the point, it’s a thought experiment.) Does it matter if this codebase is well-written? I’m not sure it does! (1/5)

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Patrick Gerken

@jacob Looking at only one aspect of code quality, readability: Code needs to be well written, because it is read more often than it is written.
But this may not be true any more with LLM generated code. So is then the quality of the LLM input (what, why, how to write a piece of code) the more important part?
But it falls apart again when the output is not deterministic.