If that's the author's point then the article needs a rewrite. I suspect that was _not_ the author's point and it's offered as a good faith but misplaced post-hoc justification.
>> Without thorough review, you are unable to be sure that the output code matches the intent of your prompting, which is analagous to writing code with UB.
> If that's the author's point then the article needs a rewrite. I suspect that was _not_ the author's point and it's offered as a good faith but misplaced post-hoc justification.
I am the author (thanks for giving some of your valuable attention to my post; much appreciated :-), and I can confirm that the `>> ...` quoted bit above is my point, and this bit of my blog-post is where I made that specific point
> As of today 2, there is a large and persistent drive to not just incorporate LLM assistance into coding, but to (in the words of the pro-LLM-coding group) “Move to a higher level of abstraction”.
> What this means is that the AI writes the code for you, you “review” (or not, as stated by Microsoft, Anthropic, etc), and then push to prod.
> Brilliant! Now EVERY language can exhibit UB.
Okay, fair enough, I'm not the worlds best writer, but I thought that bit was pretty clear when I wrote it. I still think it's clear. Especially the "Now EVERY language can exhibit UB" bit.
I'm now half inclined to paste the entire blog into a ChatAI somewhere and see what it thinks my conclusion is...
lelanthran|21 days ago
> If that's the author's point then the article needs a rewrite. I suspect that was _not_ the author's point and it's offered as a good faith but misplaced post-hoc justification.
I am the author (thanks for giving some of your valuable attention to my post; much appreciated :-), and I can confirm that the `>> ...` quoted bit above is my point, and this bit of my blog-post is where I made that specific point
> As of today 2, there is a large and persistent drive to not just incorporate LLM assistance into coding, but to (in the words of the pro-LLM-coding group) “Move to a higher level of abstraction”.
> What this means is that the AI writes the code for you, you “review” (or not, as stated by Microsoft, Anthropic, etc), and then push to prod.
> Brilliant! Now EVERY language can exhibit UB.
Okay, fair enough, I'm not the worlds best writer, but I thought that bit was pretty clear when I wrote it. I still think it's clear. Especially the "Now EVERY language can exhibit UB" bit.
I'm now half inclined to paste the entire blog into a ChatAI somewhere and see what it thinks my conclusion is...