hottake for post-ai clarity

[jmh530]

On Friday, 5 June 2026 at 22:26:06 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
> Im moving on from believing ai can be schizo-meta-programming,
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I think you make a good point about line number maxxing that I 
can’t recall seeing elsewhere.

I was using ChatGPT at work this week to make an R function and 
the function it generated was probably 1000 lines with another 
1000 worth of do string. I never would have written a function 
that long in this application, and I can’t remember ever writing 
that long a docstring in my life. But whatever, the AI can do it 
in line two minutes. I added way more functionality to this 
function in terms of outputs that I would have included if I did 
it myself. Mainly because it’s a bit of a hassle. But the actual 
logic is also quite a bit more complicated to follow than if I 
had done so. Even with the more complicated logic, the function 
quality was probably better than if I did it myself, but because 
I had to go back and forth with it a bit, I probably spent more 
time on it than if I did it myself. So it’s like it lowered the 
bar to generate something with a lot of functionality but I’m not 
sure how much value there was in the additional functionality. 
And I know because the function and doc string were decently 
large and I was doing it in ChatGPT instead of Codex that would 
have used a decent number of tokens.