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it spit out over 400 lines of code, lots of spaghetti, with strange flow and a lot of weird decisions
mplanchard on Hacker News
over 400 lines of code
In the thread “Many SWE-bench-Passing PRs would not be merged”, replying to this comment
Helped: Gave engineers confidence to work in unfamiliar languages.
Got in the way: Generated spaghetti code with strange flow and weird decisions.
… Wrote a couple proofs of concept to benchmark, and picked one based on the results. I almost never use LLMs to write code, but out of curiosity, asked whatever the newest claude is to make it with all the real prod requirements, and it spit out over 400 lines of code, lots of spaghetti, with strange flow and a lot of weird decisions. Wrote it myself with all the same functionality in right around 170 lines. …