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[โ€“] Aceticon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

As a side note, whilst I don't really use AI to help with coding, I was kinda expecting what you describe, more so for having stuff like ChatGPT doing whole modules.

You see, I've worked as a freelancer (contractor) most of my career now and in practice that does mostly mean coming in and fixing/upgrading somebody else's codebase, though I've also done some so-called "greenfield projects" (entirelly new work) and in my experience the "understanding somebody else's code" is a lot more cognitivelly heavy that "coming up with your own stuff" - in fact some of my projects would've probably gone faster if we just rewrote the whole thing (but that wasn't my call to make and often the business side doesn't want to risk it).

I'm curious if multiple different pieces of code done with AI actually have the same coding style (at multiple levels, so also software design approach) or not.