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Inviting controversy with this take, which is outside of my comfort zone, but I do stand by it. You can generate good quality code with LLMs, it “just” requires a tonne of human oversight and automated guard rails. Got a week off then I’ll be building my first proper post with webernetes. Stoked.

pre-llms would you have trusted an engineer that said they had thoroughly reviewed 100k loc in a month? ive never worked anywhere big-techish that pushes code at that scale so i cant imagine doing it without a healthy dose of LGTM

2 months* damnit, i cant even review a 5 line skeet 😂

It’s about 1600 lines a day, and most of the review was side-by-side checking that the TS version matched what the Go version was doing, which is more tedious reviewing but less thinking required. I think it’s reasonable, yeah.

huh yeah 1.6k doesn't sound so bad 🤔

Actually I counted weekends there. It’s more like ~2100/day. Still well within the realms of reason, especially when it’s such a mechanical review process. Definitely wasn’t fun, mind 😅

I also know my review wasn’t perfect. A couple times I’d find mistakes in files I’d already combed through and kick myself for missing it. I do expect to find bugs as I begin using this lib in earnest.