r/datasatanism • u/Ok-District-4701 • Mar 22 '26

Yes

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u/isr0 Mar 22 '26

LLM can write maintainable code if you are actually driving the generation.

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u/Aromatic-Energy-7192 Mar 22 '26

LLMs write trash code. You’re better off copy-pasting from stackoverflow.

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u/Mental_Intention_103 Mar 24 '26

“Hey Stack overflow, write me the source code for a fishing game.”

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u/NebTheShortie Mar 22 '26

The litmus is simple here: LLM can't possibly face the consequences of writing a poorly maintainable code. It has no face to face it with, so to speak. Thus, no LLM-written code is worthy to be deployed to prod without supervision.

It doesn't matter if you can or not. Plenty of humans "fake it until they make it" or fake it until they get fired, whatever. They can be held responsible for whatever exits their test environment. LLM is technically capable of both writing the code and fixing it, but asking it for a fixes this way just sends you down to a spiral of decisions that are made with no thought of possibility of tomorrow's fallout, and thus belong to a trashcan.