Big Walk - ★★★

Yesterday it came out that Big Walk used LLMs in its development. In House House's response (archived here), they stated that the use was small and largely consultative rather than generative, although some amount of LLM-generated code was used as the basis for code that shipped. Big Walk was developed without an internal AI usage policy in place, and we consider that lack of policy a failure. We will work to have a more comprehensive policy going forwards. Reading between the lines, this final paragraph suggests that LLM usage was not a matter of company policy but rather one or a few engineers making individual decisions about their workflows. It also implies that they will institute a policy against this in the future, but leaves open the possibility that the policy they settle on will allow some amount of LLM usage. I'm sure there's a tremendous amount of bickering about this happening on social media; I'm no longer in that particular torment nexus, so I don't know the details. I…

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