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Re:I'm Coding by Hand by bdangubic on Friday April 17, 2026 @09:55PM (#47812528)
if it catches a lot of bugs maybe you’d be better of letting it write it in the first place :)
Re:I'm Coding by Hand by saulpw on Friday April 17, 2026 @11:44PM (#47812960)
Nono, that is the reverse centaur. Structure your own thoughts, that's the human work.
Re:I'm Coding by Hand by cppluajs on Saturday April 18, 2026 @02:20AM (#47813567)
IME, not really. When you prompt it to review its own written code, it will end up finding out a bunch of stuff that should have been otherwise. And then you can add different "dimensions" in your prompt as well like performance, memory safety, idiomatic code, etc.
Re:I'm Coding by Hand by lionkor on Saturday April 18, 2026 @03:38AM (#47813961)
It also writes lots of bugs which it'll catch some of, in an independent review chat.

This is bogus. If you think LLMs write less buggy software, you haven't worked with seriously capable engineers. And now, of course, everyone can become such an engineer if they put in the effort to learn.

But why not just use the AI? Because you can still use the AI once you're seriously good.

Re:I'm Coding by Hand by roganartu on Saturday April 18, 2026 @08:47AM (#47815498)
> But why not just use the AI? Because you can still use the AI once you're seriously good.

Perhaps because the jury is still out on whether one can become “seriously good” by using AI if they weren’t before.

Re:I'm Coding by Hand by lionkor on Sunday April 19, 2026 @04:09AM (#47822629)
I haven't seen it.
Re:I'm Coding by Hand by jb1991 on Saturday April 18, 2026 @04:00AM (#47814088)
This is definitely not correct in my opinion. You’re essentially saying, instead of a person actually getting better at the craft, just give up and let someone else do it.
Re:I'm Coding by Hand by bdangubic on Saturday April 18, 2026 @11:07AM (#47816496)
I was joking :)
Re:I'm Coding by Hand by vips7L on Saturday April 18, 2026 @08:28AM (#47815392)
Statistically LLMs generate more bugs for the same feature.