Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med...
by bee_rider on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:22AM
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This is a pretty good question. Maybe LLMs are just, in some sense, ~10x worse at DRY than humans.
Or, I mean, in my code at least I can directly say that any line I write results in 4 lines generated by macros. So, I guess my projects were already 80% written by computers in some sense. If I was using an LLM would I have skipped the macros entirely?
I’ve always been in favor of doing this sort of measurement by flop instead of loc, but, then we’d have to give all the credit to compute libraries.
Or, I mean, in my code at least I can directly say that any line I write results in 4 lines generated by macros. So, I guess my projects were already 80% written by computers in some sense. If I was using an LLM would I have skipped the macros entirely?
I’ve always been in favor of doing this sort of measurement by flop instead of loc, but, then we’d have to give all the credit to compute libraries.