Reviewing AI Code Is Not a Viable Argument
Reviewing AI Code Is Not A Viable Argument 18 Jul 2026 - Thomas Depierre I am a skeptic of the utility of LLM in software development. It is not because of IP laws problems (even if they are highly problematic), nor is it for ecological and ressource comsumptions reasons. It is not even for “they are all crap” reasons.
- ▪Reviewing AI Code Is Not A Viable Argument 18 Jul 2026 - Thomas Depierre I am a skeptic of the utility of LLM in software development.
- ▪It is not because of IP laws problems (even if they are highly problematic), nor is it for ecological and ressource comsumptions reasons.
- ▪It is not even for “they are all crap” reasons.
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Reviewing AI Code Is Not A Viable Argument 18 Jul 2026 - Thomas Depierre I am a skeptic of the utility of LLM in software development. It is not because of IP laws problems (even if they are highly problematic), nor is it for ecological and ressource comsumptions reasons. It is not even for “they are all crap” reasons. My problem with LLM Coding Assistants is that I cannot see, in the face of the scientific evidence, how they can help someone write code better or faster. And the thing that irritate me is that it seems that none of the proponents of LLM Coding Assistants seems to ever address this problem and this evidence when they defend their tooling choices. Worse, it seems that they give fuel to my arguments everytime they write a rebuke of the skeptics.
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