Are LLMs capable of writing *good* code? - eviltoast

By “good” I mean code that is written professionally and concisely (and obviously works as intended). Apart from personal interest and understanding what the machine spits out, is there any legit reason anyone should learn advanced coding techniques? Specifically in an engineering perspective?

If not, learning how to write code seems a tad trivial now.

  • GBU_28@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    It can absolutely write a docstring for a provided function. That and unit tests are like some of the easiest things for it, because it has the source code to work from