Comment Re: Useful If Verified (Score 1) 247
Agree 100%. As a recent retiree from a 45-year software engineering career, I too have a huge collection of libraries that I've written and vetted over the years in a variety of languages, which, combined with experience, allow me to gain significant reuse on projects, without having to resort to untested code statistically generated by an LLM. I suspect nearly all graybeards who have been in the industry for decades feel the same way. Don't get me wrong; LLM's can be very educational, sometimes producing algorithmic approaches that you may not have considered, and as such can be a useful tool. You are essentially reviewing someone else's code (because that's where it initiated from), which is always educational. I think it's wise to pick and choose what bits of generated code that you find useful and intend to utilize, and carefully and fully vet the code, spending time understanding and refining it as appropriate, casting a particularly critical eye on its security aspects. It then becomes your code, and should include full test suites and documentation (gasp!), as should any code prior to committing it.