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I provide AI samples of my work, with context, which it does pretty well.

I have these patterns part of the command so it's no buried deep inside a context window. Claude is great at looking at the entire codebase and following the styles and approaches it comes across.

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That's great. But my point is that the style and approach doesn't matter when you can spend 30 seconds producing something that you'll never have a reason to look at the inside of and you can throw away and regenerate. "Look, it can write code just like yours!" is said as if that's a selling point to use it. Consistency, in style and approach, has been talked about for decades because it's important for the humans who are involved with the code. But using an LLM to generate the code also means no human will ever need to be maintaining it, or at least that's what's really being sold with LLM code generation, so none of the things that are important to humans matter at all.

True that.

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