‹ BackHN Continuity

Thread

AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You

388 points · 554 comments · dimonomid

  1. someguynamedq · · focus · HN ↗
    > AI isn't good at software maintainability

    We're a few years into a new technology that is still improving. This is a point-in-time critique.

    1. petesergeant · · focus · HN ↗
      Also AI is fine at creating maintainable software, you just have to nag it to and not accept its first attempt at it, and subject it to peer review. This is plenty similar to human developers.
      1. lolakutty · · focus · HN ↗
        It creates maintainable looking code that will not stand the test of time.
        1. lmz · · focus · HN ↗
          Some humans don't even manage to do that.
          1. lolakutty · · focus · HN ↗
            I think crappy code that looks like crap, is better than good looking code that is actually crap if someone cares to look..at least it can be fixed early.

            LLMs commit crap, and read the "pattern" back, and consider it as gospel and repeat it all across the code base...

Open on Hacker News to reply ↗

Unofficial Hacker News client; not affiliated with Y Combinator.