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>>tablet+(OP)
I like Thomas, but I find his arguments include the same fundamental mistake I see made elsewhere. He acknowledged that the tools need an expert to use properly, and as he illustrated, he refined his expertise over many years. He is of the first and last generation of experienced programmers who learned without LLM assistance. How is someone just coming out of school going to get the encouragement and space to independently develop the experience they need to break out of the "vibe coding" phase? I can almost anticipate an interjection along the lines of "well we used to build everything with our hands and now we have tools etc, it's just different" but this is an order of magnitude different. This is asking a robot to design and assemble a shed for you, and you never even see the saw, nails, and hammer being used, let alone understand enough about how the different materials interact to get much more than a "vibe" for how much weight the roof might support.

>>parado+4u
I suppose the counterargument is, how many experienced programmers today have seen a register or a JMP instruction being used?

>>SpicyL+Hu
Your compiler does not hallucinate registers or JMP instructions

>>weikju+hy
Doesn't it? Many compilers offer all sorts of novel optimizations for operations that end up producing the same result with entirely different runtime characteristics than the source code would imply. Going further, turn on gcc fast math and your code with no undefined behavior suddenly has undefined behavior.

I'm not much of a user of LLMs for generating code myself, but this particular analogy isn't a great fit. The one redeeming quality is that compiler output is deterministic or at least repeatable, whereas LLMs have some randomness thrown in intentionally.

With that said, both can give you unexpected behavior, just in different ways.

>>zdragn+AA
> With that said, both can give you unexpected behavior, just in different ways.

Unexpected as in "I didn't know" is different than unexpected as in "I can't predict". GCC optimizations is in the former camp and if you care to know, you just need to do a deep dive in your CPU architecture and the gcc docs and codebase. LLMs is a true shot in the dark with a high chance miss and a slightly lower chance of friendly fire.