Hacker News: tryallhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tryallHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:32:03 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by tryall in "Vera: a programming language designed for machines to write"]]>The FAQ says shuffled names (renaming a variable 'count' to 'result') make LLM perform poorly. But I never seen any codebase have this kind of lies (except from comments). And LLM writing code almost never do that.

Seems like a weird decision taken from a weird paper that make everything harder for humans AND llms. Variables names give useful context when correctly named.

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