studies show a clear trend – output is up (more code, more commits, bigger diffs), but outcomes don’t reflect that trend. If anything, the average team is taking longer to ship worse software

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    4 hours ago

    LLMs can’t tell the difference between code and comments in some cases. Older code bases that have had a number of hands touching it over the years have a lot of commented out code and dead methods. LLM sees that as good live code. Also there will be comments like ‘this is a stupid way to do this, but I don’t have time to fix it right now’. LLM has no sense of humor in this case.
    And sure. I should clean all this up before hand, but who has time for that? Project has one, part time developer working on it now.