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AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You

388 points · 554 comments · dimonomid

  1. smerrill2 · · focus · HN ↗
    > I'm no luddite, I’ve integrated AI in my everyday work, while actually teaching my colleagues what I’ve learned

    It's appalling that we still hold on to such things that are no longer necessary. Code maintainability is not a problem when you don't have to open a file and inspect how something works anymore. You use english to add to it. You sit on chairs everyday where you don't give a shit how they were created. They fulfill their purpose. hopefully the same can be said for your software.

    1. mjr00 · · focus · HN ↗
      > Code maintainability is not a problem when you don't have to open a file and inspect how something works anymore. You use english to add to it.

      Hilarious and unhinged junior dev and/or outsourced dev and/or expert beginner take here.

      Not everything is baby's first React app for an internal business or B2B SaaS startup with 3 users. Sometimes your software is actually used by people, and bugs happen, and you need to figure out why bugs happen, and quickly. You do this by reading the code. Yes, AI is very helpful with this--sometimes. But even SOTA agents cannot solve every bug, particularly when the person directing them has no clue what they're doing, as in your case, so they aren't given good constraints or starting points.

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