Re: GR: Ban LLM contributions from Debian

On 27.07.26 10:24, Gard Spreemann wrote:
> a person is
> still writing a precise set of instructions when they write C or
> JavaScript

I would contend that there are heaps of edge cases in both C and 
JavaScript where the intended meaning and/or the result is *not* 
precise[ly specified]. At all.

Yes, translating a more-or-less-correct/complete specification to code 
is (for the most part) not going to be one-shot and/or deterministic 
when you give the job to an LLM, but the same thing happens when you 
hand the spec to a junior programmer. The LLM might make more stupid 
mistakes or start out with worse assumptions, but on the other hand 
it'll happily write more tests — and it's not going to lose its 
motivation when you *finally* notice that glaring error in the spec and 
force it to throw away half the code it wrote last week …

-- 
-- regards
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-- Matthias Urlichs

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