Your LLM Doesn't Write Correct Code. It Writes Plausible Code. (8 minute read)
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Generative AI
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A benchmarked LLM-generated Rust rewrite of SQLite ran 20,171x slower on primary key lookups because the query planner never checked the is_ipk flag, sending every WHERE clause through a full table scan instead of a B-tree search. The same author's disk cleanup daemon came in at 82,000 lines with a Bayesian scoring engine and PID controller to solve a problem that a one-line cron job already handles.