[Please do not mail me a copy of your followup] Andrey Semashev via Boost <boost@lists.boost.org> spake the secret code <6b77dc56-de64-4a9a-bedc-6191284b0ee0@gmail.com> thusly:
On 2 Feb 2026 18:38, Richard via Boost wrote:
If you, as a reviewer or reader, can't tell the difference between the product of that process and what I would've typed by hand, why do you care?
[...] The problem is, as I said in my reply, that the quality of the AI-generated code is often worse than that of the code written by a qualified human.
As I said: if you can't tell the difference, why do you care? You turn around and say that you can tell the difference because you assert that the code is "often worse" than that written by a "qualified" human. First, you need to define what you mean by a "qualified human", because other than willingness I see no requirements for boost library authors that they demonstrate some sort of qualification. Second, you need to provide evidence for your assertion that AI generated code is "often" worse. The premise of my statement is: if you can't tell how I arrived at the code, why do you care? As I wrote earlier, crappy code has been written by humans since they started writing code, so just asserting that AI generated code is crappy is a non-differentiating difference. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" free book <http://tinyurl.com/d3d-pipeline> The Terminals Wiki <http://terminals-wiki.org> The Computer Graphics Museum <http://computergraphicsmuseum.org> Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>