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1. glouwbug · 1790613143 · focus · HN ↗

   When you write something you constantly remodel your understanding through refactors and rewrites until you internalize it. By internalizing it you gain the capacity to reason about it (during critical downtime) and communicate it. An entire team that can communicate can solve problems together, from one guy's vision to products white boarding to engineering's infrastructure to UX and UI's artistry.

   It boggles me we completely forgot that the world operated like this just 4 years ago

   1. poisonborz · 1790619682 · focus · HN ↗

      Assuming we don't speak about some vibed "one-shot-deploy" situation (for which there were options in the old world as well, with the same bad results), in a well disciplined team, why would AI make this worse?

      You can still write anything by doing it either small steps, or at once followed by a lot of refactors while skimming over code and asking tons of questions / making refinements via prompts, guidelines, test guardrails. A team can still reason and whitepaper about the same things. Devs who were previously shy to ask some specific details (to not seem dumb) can now confidently survey big codebases and get insights in whatever style they can swallow.

      The bigger problem I see is that all this requires a lot of communication, and most importantly writing skills, something that disappears in thin air in the last decades.

      1. AppleBananaPie · 1790630469 · focus · HN ↗

         My experience is the AI has somehow thrown discipline and accountability out the door.

         Folks break everything all the time and looking at their PRs and messages are clearly just having the AI respond to everything for them and actually have no idea what they're doing.

         And then other people doing the same thing approve their work (presumably not reading or understanding any of it) because then the other person will do the same for theirs.

         Hopefully my experience is an anomaly though :)

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