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I feel for the future maintainers of all this crappy LLM legacy code in the future. It’s gonna be ugly.

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Surely we will get LLMs to maintain it.

So, I guess LLMs are actually creating jobs rather than destroying them. Not exactly fun jobs though.

Not exactly well paid either, I suspect.

I suspect it will be no worse than enterprisey code. It might even look quite similar, although the comments and docs will be more thorough and less likely to be actively wrong.

…unless the LLM hallucinates the comments and docs.

It will be worse because there will be a lot more of it

Just delete the tests, problem solved. Your CI dashboard even gives you the green checkmark.

This made me think of that midwit meme with “delete the tests, green check mark in CI” on either side of the graph and “100% coverage” in the centre. Not totally valid, but… A bit of truth, haha.

Maybe the right side should be something about fuzzing and using static types. Use systemic and automated checks. I’m a little ashamed that I thought in memes so readily.

Agreed.

LLMs will never get any better than they are right now and haven't improved at all in 2 years. Just fancy Markov chains.

The only way they can be used to write code is by people who don't know how to code blindly commiting code to prod without any review whatsoever.

People who do know how to code couldn't possibly have a use case and it won't make them any more productive.

I'm just going to ignore all this LLM nonsense that isn't changing the world at all and you definitely should too.

Disagree, I find them very useful to quickly explain new libraries or do tedious things like regex

My post is absolutely doused in sarcasm.

I too feel compassion for the AI agents that will be dealing with this code. 99% of human developers will be out of the loop by then.

I’m old enough to remember the first time they said this about offshoring.

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