• Shiggles@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    How often does a solution need “new” code and not “basically the same code as a previous issue but with two small details changed”? This is a genuine question, I have only ever coded as a hobby. But 25% of your work being essentially just copy pasted sounds plausible, and that’s sorta all LLMs are doing, right?

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      2 days ago

      Reusable code is usually pulled out into a library and reused that way, rather than copied and pasted into a new project. You might copy and paste some boilerplate to new projects but it wouldn’t be anywhere near 25% of the code.

      I’m not sure why someone downvoted you (it wasn’t me!) because your comment did seem like a genuine question.