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[–] -2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

Libraries can be audited. LLM generated code cannot.

Edit: to clarify, it is impossible to audit all LLM generated code across a number of projects, that would replace a single library. It simply won’t happen, because there will always be a non trivial number of users who will copy and paste code without inspecting it. In contrast, widely used open source libraries may be audited by a small subset of their users, and the rest would benefit from that.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Yes it can, its literally still code.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I know it’s code. You are missing the point.

    Any library with a critical user mass is auditable, because a fraction of those users would take the time to do so, whereas all LLM generated variations of the same library cannot and will never be auditable.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    That's literally not what you said, you said "LLM code can not be auditable" which is demonstrably wrong.

    Go ahead and move the goal posts though.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    You missed the context. I don’t blame you.

    Tell me how in hell are you going to audit every single variation of code generated by a LLM, that's equivalent to a whole library. I'll wait.

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