What Justin Frankel thinks about AI writing

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American programmer who created Winamp and founded Cockos, maker of the REAPER audio workstation; writes about programming and the web on his site 1014.org.

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   Our readingHigh-quality LLM-written code takes a ton of human work unless it copies something already done before.

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   Their wordsYou can have high quality code produced by an LLM, but it will almost certainly take a ton of work by the human, unless you happen to be writing something that has been totally done before, in which case it will probably just rip that off.

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