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steveklabnik 5 hours ago

writing prose and writing code are two different things

I can get good code out of LLMs. I can rarely get good writing out of them.

Maybe it's a skill issue, but it's not inherently a contradiction that they're better at some things than others. It's much easier to RL coding than writing.

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simonw 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Being dull and predictable and repeating existing patterns are characteristics of good code, and simultaneously characteristics of bad writing.

SAI_Peregrinus 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I like to delete all AI comments, and write my own. If I can't write a comment, I don't understand the code well enough to have my name on the commit. I often delete the resulting comment, because AI likes to add many more than are necessary.