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I mean, what I hear from that is that an LLM who you tell to write as safe code as possible is probably going to do a better job than your average human engineer at it, and you still have to do the same verification work either way. So why not have the LLM write the code and you instead just spend time verifying it? In other words, if I give an LLM and an average C developer the same task who will perform better? Even if the average C developer does better but takes N hours to write it and I still have to spend M cycles reviewing the average C developer's work, I'd rather have N be written by a machine since I have to pay M anyway regardless of whether it came from a machine or human.

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