@GergelyOrosz: This is exactly why experienced software engineers are valuable and will be valuable. If you don’t know what good code …
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Gergely Orosz argues that experienced software engineers remain valuable because they can discern good code from bad, something AI code generators still cannot reliably do.
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This is exactly why experienced software engineers are valuable and will be valuable.
If you don’t know what good code looks like you will have no idea if what the models generate are any good
Of course “AI reviews the code” etc etc… it doesn’t work as reliably. Via @mitchellh https://t.co/xeD7E20XNk
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