By “good” I mean code that is written professionally and concisely (and obviously works as intended). Apart from personal interest and understanding what the machine spits out, is there any legit reason anyone should learn advanced coding techniques? Specifically in an engineering perspective?
If not, learning how to write code seems a tad trivial now.
No LLM is trust worthy.
Unless you understand the code and can double check what it’s doing I wouldn’t risk running it.
And if you do understand it any benefit of time saved is likely going to be offset by debugging and verifying what it actually does.
Since reviewing code is much harder than checking code you wrote, relying on LLMs too heavily is just plain dangerous, and a bad practice, especially if you’re working with specific technologies with lots of footguns (cf C or C++). The amount of crazy and hard to detect bad things you can write in C++ is insane. You won’t catch CVE-material by just reading the output ChatGPT or Copilot spits out.
And there’s lots of sectors like aerospace, medical where that untrustworthiness is completely unacceptable.