I fully concur with the intern metaphor. That’s what an LLM is - an intern with VAST amounts of lexical knowledge but little understanding of large scale system design, or generally, experience.
LLM generated code is mostly okay. You do have to review it, like you would an intern’s contributions, but generally, it’s good quality code and well documented.
Yeah I don’t think we should be pushing to have LLMs generate code unsupervised. It’s an unrealistic standard. It’s not even a standard most companies would entrust their most capable programmers with. Everything needs to be reviewed.
But just because it’s not working alone doesn’t mean it’s useless. I wrote like 5 lines of code this week by hand. But I committed thousands of lines. And I reviewed and tweaked and tended to every one of them. That’s how it should be.
I fully concur with the intern metaphor. That’s what an LLM is - an intern with VAST amounts of lexical knowledge but little understanding of large scale system design, or generally, experience.
LLM generated code is mostly okay. You do have to review it, like you would an intern’s contributions, but generally, it’s good quality code and well documented.
Yeah I don’t think we should be pushing to have LLMs generate code unsupervised. It’s an unrealistic standard. It’s not even a standard most companies would entrust their most capable programmers with. Everything needs to be reviewed.
But just because it’s not working alone doesn’t mean it’s useless. I wrote like 5 lines of code this week by hand. But I committed thousands of lines. And I reviewed and tweaked and tended to every one of them. That’s how it should be.