Rishav :neofox_cute: on Nostr: yeah 99% of code (especially proprietary code) is means to an end. I dont see the act ...

yeah 99% of code (especially proprietary code) is means to an end. I dont see the act of writing code specifically as any more special than the act of mining coal (for example).

that’s why I separated out art; which is, in my book, *not* a means to an end (I’m using the term art here very specifically; not consoomerslop). and even then, I see no problem with models that are trained on freely licensed music/pictures and so on. Let people who want to use them, use them.

Of course I still enjoy writing code by hand. But it would be stupid of me to argue that that’s the only correct way to go about it. Especially when I have seen for myself that LLMs can be used to write reasonably correct (if mediocre) code. I myself can strongly care about writing “good code”, but it might be hard to convince a physicist (to take visuwesh (npub1nck…g5lx) ’s example) that writing “good code” matters. Like have u ever seen code written by scientists its utter dogshit most of the time, an LLM would probably write better code I think 😭

code that works is code that works. and the claim that LLM-written code doesnt work is getting harder to defend with every passing day. At the end of it all, most code is just a tool to do something else, and that something else is usually the important part.