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Comprehension Debt: The Ticking Time Bomb of LLM-Generated Code (codemanship.wordpress.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by codeinabox@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I mean lots of code was not up to scratch even before this craziness.

[–] codeinabox@programming.dev 10 points 3 weeks ago

Exactly but generative AI has exacerbated the problem

What is new is the scale of the problem being created as lightning-speed code generators spew reams of unread code into millions of projects

[–] javasux@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Immense copium