On average AI code seems to be about 2-3x more verbose than what I would write
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2-3x more verbose
In the thread “Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions”, replying to this comment
Helped: Convenience for non-expert questions like biology.
Got in the way: Verbose code requiring correction and slowing down workflow.
… (I either have to correct its outputs, or spend extra time understanding them, or the codebases become unwieldy and I've DEFINITELY seen that. On average AI code seems to be about 2-3x more verbose than what I would write). I can see why someone that can't code (or doesn't want to) would find them to be amazing, but I also think those people are not in a great position to judge the outputs, which is still pretty necessary and probably will be for the foreseeable future. …