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2026-09-28 23:53 UTC

@alexchapman@vee.seedy.cc @jzb@hachyderm.io @dansup@mastodon.social > it doesn't matter how the code was made Hi - just reading this discussion, I disagree on this point. As a reviewer, I want to know what decisions were made - sometimes line by line. Why is this a bool? Why was a thing chosen to be a function and stdlib not used? Why use a file not a buffer? When reviewing generated code, there were no decisions. Questions about design choices are often answered with LLM generated text which *looks* like reasoning, but isn’t. At the other end of the scale is TDD built code that’s gone through multiple loops of Red Green Refactor. Here asking questions brings back detailed answers about why certain things worked or didn’t. Why things were mocked. Why extra layers were added or removed. When we know about why code is the way it is, it increases quality and maintainability - that’s why we care about how it was made.

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  • @alexchapman@vee.seedy.cc 2026-09-28 23:54

    @jamescooke@hachyderm.io Actually there are decisions if the prompt specifically states how it should be done, so you're incorrect there. @jzb@hachyderm.io @dansup@mastodon.social

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