top | item 43228494 (no title) L-four | 1 year ago The trick to coding with LLMs is not caring if the code is correct. discuss order hn newest andrelaszlo|1 year ago Call me cynical but coding at some companies has such perverse incentives that I kind of get it:- "Solve" the issue assigned to me with a bunch of code that looks about right. Passes review and probably not covered by tests anyway.- Once QA or customers notice it's not working, I can get credit for "solving" the bug as well.- Repeat for 0 value delivered but infinite productivity points in my next performance review. nsoonhui|1 year ago I suppose that you are using a dynamic language? Static typed languages have less of this problem. load replies (1)
andrelaszlo|1 year ago Call me cynical but coding at some companies has such perverse incentives that I kind of get it:- "Solve" the issue assigned to me with a bunch of code that looks about right. Passes review and probably not covered by tests anyway.- Once QA or customers notice it's not working, I can get credit for "solving" the bug as well.- Repeat for 0 value delivered but infinite productivity points in my next performance review. nsoonhui|1 year ago I suppose that you are using a dynamic language? Static typed languages have less of this problem. load replies (1)
nsoonhui|1 year ago I suppose that you are using a dynamic language? Static typed languages have less of this problem. load replies (1)
andrelaszlo|1 year ago
- "Solve" the issue assigned to me with a bunch of code that looks about right. Passes review and probably not covered by tests anyway.
- Once QA or customers notice it's not working, I can get credit for "solving" the bug as well.
- Repeat for 0 value delivered but infinite productivity points in my next performance review.
nsoonhui|1 year ago