Comment by austinthetaco

Comment by austinthetaco 12 hours ago

I believe the "look at all the lines of code" argument for LLMs is not a way to showcase intelligence, but more-so a way to showcase time saved. Under the guise that the output is the/a correct solution, it's a way to say "look at all the code I would have had to write, it saved so much time".

SoftTalker 12 hours ago

The line of code that saves the most time is the one you don't write.

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austinthetaco 9 hours ago

It's all contextual. Sometimes, particularly when it comes to modern frontends, you have inescapable boilerplate and lines of code to write. Thats where it saves time. Another example is scaffolding out unit tests for series of services. There are many such cases where it just objectively saves time.

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stoneforger 11 hours ago

Reason went out of fashion like 50 years ago, and it was never really in vogue.

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