By “good” I mean code that is written professionally and concisely (and obviously works as intended). Apart from personal interest and understanding what the machine spits out, is there any legit reason anyone should learn advanced coding techniques? Specifically in an engineering perspective?
If not, learning how to write code seems a tad trivial now.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It might write good code, but until it can write perfect code every time, people should still know enough to at least check and correct the mistakes
chknbwl@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I very much agree, thank you for indulging my question.
667@lemmy.radio 2 months ago
I used an LLM to write some code I knew I could write, but was a little lazy to do. Coding is not my trade, but I did learn Python during the pandemic. Had I not known to code, I would not have been able to direct the LLM to make the required corrections.
In the end, I got decent code that worked for the purpose I needed.
visor841@lemmy.world 2 months ago
For a very long time people will also still need to understand what they are asking the machine to do. If you tell it to write code for an impossible concept, it can’t make it. If you ask it to write code to do something incredibly inefficiently, it’s going to give you code that is incredibly inefficient.
scarabic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve even seen human engineers’ code thrown out because no one else could understand it. Back in the day, one wended took it upon himself to whip up a mobile version of the company’s very complex website. He did it as a side project. It worked. It was very fast. The code was completely unreadable by anyone else. We didn’t use it.