Yes, there’s far more code to review and the reviews are extremely fucking frustrating and I can tell who is using an LLM based on the volume and texture of the shit they’re pushing out. You have to check everything excreted by an LLM far more thoroughly than if it had just been written by the senior dev who produced the slop. An LLM is incapable of reasoning, it’s just choosing likely tokens based on past context, so nothing it produces can actually be trusted.
Source—I’m a senior dev at a large software company you’ve absolutely heard of. I am drowning in slop.
Yes, there’s far more code to review and the reviews are extremely fucking frustrating and I can tell who is using an LLM based on the volume and texture of the shit they’re pushing out. You have to check everything excreted by an LLM far more thoroughly than if it had just been written by the senior dev who produced the slop. An LLM is incapable of reasoning, it’s just choosing likely tokens based on past context, so nothing it produces can actually be trusted.
Source—I’m a senior dev at a large software company you’ve absolutely heard of. I am drowning in slop.