SMRTR ProgrammingJan 5, 2026Hacker Noon

Can LLMs Generate Quality Code? A 40,000-Line Experiment

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A developer spent 80 hours building a complete reactive UI framework with 40+ components using only LLM-generated code. Key findings: LLMs produce quality code with proper guidance but default to popular solutions, require explicit requirements to avoid complexity creep, and benefit from formal metrics to identify and fix code degradation.

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