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Re:Human coders are still better than LLMs by Retric on Thursday May 29, 2025 @01:55PM (#44128478)
Progress sure, but the rate the’ve improved hasn’t been particularly fast recently.

Programming has become vastly more efficient in terms of programmer effort over decades, but making some aspects of the job more efficient just means all your effort it spent on what didn’t improve.

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Re:Human coders are still better than LLMs by mirsadm on Thursday May 29, 2025 @02:34PM (#44128862)
The latest batch of LLMs has been getting worse in my opinion. Claude in particular seems to be going backwards with every release. The verbosity of the answers is infuriating. You ask it a simple question and it starts by inventing the universe, poorly
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Re:Human coders are still better than LLMs by lexandstuff on Thursday May 29, 2025 @05:55PM (#44130771)
People seem to have forgotten how good the 2023 GPT-4 really was at coding tasks.
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