SMRTR ProgrammingAug 26, 2026Hacker News

A Thought on LLM Pair Programming

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When developers use LLMs to write code, code ownership becomes a problem with no clean solution. In traditional pair programming, ownership shifts between human partners. With LLMs, that ownership has nowhere to land — and pushing it back onto the developer creates resentment. Someone will ultimately be held accountable for that displaced ownership, and it probably won't be pretty.

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