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Potentially Useful | Programmers should reject LLM-based coding assistants

eamoncaddigan.net · 2,278 words · saved by 1 readers

Even without the ethical issues present in the coding assistants that exist, these tools are fundamentally unfit for the job.

The complexity of our world is beyond the limits of human comprehension. In spite of this, we generally feel like we understand what’s going on around us. Each of us achieves this feat of self-deception by cobbling together an assortment of abstractions, mental models, schemas, and metaphors 1 . When life confronts us with yet another task that demands attention, we select the most appropriate of these and ignore the universe of details that are (hopefully) irrelevant. This approach generally works surprisingly well! Computers are less complex than the whole world, but they still resist human

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