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If AI coding is lowering your code quality, you're not managing quality right

129 points · 169 comments · bucket2015

  1. mococa · · focus · HN ↗
    AI writes unmaintainable code - you can see that many projects don't accept it.
    1. MikeNotThePope · · focus · HN ↗
      To be fair, so do humans.
      1. sarchertech · · focus · HN ↗
        Yeah but in my experience AI boosts output of those humans 10x and only boosts output of programmers who do write maintainable code 50-100%.
        1. goalieca · · focus · HN ↗
          The issue I’ve observed is that good humans brainrot and let the AI do the thinking for them. Too many say LGTM and then push a PR.
      2. bigstrat2003 · · focus · HN ↗
        Some humans, yes. Most humans write much better code than an LLM.
    2. aleph_minus_one · · focus · HN ↗
      > AI writes unmaintainable code - you can see that many projects don't accept it.

      There also exist other good reasons why projects don't want AI-generated code, in particular

      - because of unclarity of copyright status and consequences of AI-generated code

      - because the project leader simply made the observation than many programmers who hand in AI-generated code care more about "getting things done" and "pushing through their changes" (possibly to boost their CV) instead of deeply caring about code quality

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