Re:Ask HN: Do you document LLM-generated code as such?
by ilaksh on Thursday March 07, 2024 @04:45PM
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I am anticipating that within 2-5 years questions like this will be moot for many projects.
Because there will be development platforms and tools built around AI-generated code. The LLMs will have integrated code execution and libraries/APIs that they are familiar with. If a programmer or user stays within this platform, which will be fairly general purpose, the AI can handle 98% of requests with no help writing code.
These types of platforms will completely normalize AI-written code. People won't think twice about using it or feel they need to make a note of it.
What you might see say five years out is kind of the opposite. For some code bases, if a human writes the code and it hasn't been checked by an AI, then they have to make a note in a comment with their name and why they are not using AI verification. But they will probably choose to have an AI verify the code just to avoid extra procedure.
Because there will be development platforms and tools built around AI-generated code. The LLMs will have integrated code execution and libraries/APIs that they are familiar with. If a programmer or user stays within this platform, which will be fairly general purpose, the AI can handle 98% of requests with no help writing code.
These types of platforms will completely normalize AI-written code. People won't think twice about using it or feel they need to make a note of it.
What you might see say five years out is kind of the opposite. For some code bases, if a human writes the code and it hasn't been checked by an AI, then they have to make a note in a comment with their name and why they are not using AI verification. But they will probably choose to have an AI verify the code just to avoid extra procedure.