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I find all AI code to be lower quality than humans who care about quality. This might be ok, I think the assumpt with AI is that we don't need to look at code so that it looks beautiful because AI will look at it .

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Opus 4.5 is the highest quality code I've seen out of LLMs, still some way to go to match programmers who care, but much better than most people. I find it enough to let it write the code and then manually polish it afterwards.

Same. It is finally almost always more productive for me to use vs doing it myself. What this means for my career and life, I don’t know. But, I do think the job for most of us is going to look very different moving forward.

My experience with generating code with AI is very limited across a limited set of programming languages but whenever it has produced low quality code, it has been able to better itself with further instructions. Like "oh no, that is not the right naming convention. Please use instead" or "the choice of design pattern here is not great because ${reasons}. Produce 2 alternative solutions using x or y" and in nearly every case it produces satisfactory results.

Has this also been your experience?

Kinda, yes, my experience has also been that it takes too long in that way though. I've been using AI for different tasks than something that requires high quality code

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