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“Good Taste” Is Just Experience (terriblesoftware.org)
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When people say “taste,” what they actually mean is experience. Pattern recognition built up over years of doing the work. But calling it “taste” instead of “experience” does something subtle and harmful: it makes a learnable skill sound like a gift.

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[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago

Absolutely correct, and likely the eventual outcome (tool not replacement), because LLMs are not, and very likely never will even be close to AGI (let alone techbro dreams of ASI). Code smell is a thing, and LLMs reek. It is possible to learn from codegen, but that sure as rut is not it's purpose. mostly an excuse to drive down wages to make the rich richer.

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