Ted M. Young

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He/Him. Technical coach. All about Making #Java Code More Testable. #TDD #Refactoring #JUnit #AssertJ #EventSourcing

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2026-07-10 23:39:03 UTC

Getting tired (again) of every conversation ending up talking about “AI”. Got testy on my stream cuz someone said I was being “sensitive” about it, but it was more that I was just plain tired of talking about it. (and trying to steer the conversation to whether “AI” can be conscious did NOT help their case)
I need to start declaring “AI” as being verboten on at least some streams.

2026-06-21 17:31:14 UTC

I've seen comments about accepting LLM-generated code in that we don't/can't understand it and excusing that because:
"There's always code in the system that we don't understand"

2026-06-21 17:31:14 UTC

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Except, LLM-gen'd and human-written code are different.
One was written by someone with a mental model. Modified by humans with another mental model (correct or not), etc.
The other is generated by statistical, stochastic methods with constraints.
These are not the same.

2026-06-21 17:31:14 UTC

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Want to use LLM-generated code? That's your choice. But don't argue that it's the same as code from 15 years ago, written by folks who had a human mental model, and made sense to them at the time.

2026-02-23 20:36:54 UTC

The argument made by some folks regarding LLMs being non-deterministic is that humans are non-deterministic as well. However, humans are non-deterministic in a particularly human way. Also, humans can (usually) explain themselves (at least in terms of why they chose some particular solution), but LLMs cannot explain their output (despite appearances), since it’s stochastic, with no underlying meaning.