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> If you need embedded C code for an obscure micro controller.. yeah, good luck.

... or even information in the embedded world. LLMs need to generate something, o they'll generate code even when the answer is "no dude, your chip doesn't support that".



> they'll generate code even when the answer is "no dude, your chip doesn't support that".

This is precisely the problem. As I point out elsewhere[0], reviewing AI-generated code is _not_ the same thing as reviewing code written by someone else, because you can ask a human author what they were thinking and get a moderately-honest response; whereas an AI will confidently and convincingly lie to you.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41991750




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