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wvenableyesterday at 7:48 AM2 repliesview on HN

I've been posting recently how I refactored a few different code bases with the help of AI. Faster code, higher quality code, overall smaller. AI is not a hammer, it's a Lathe: incredibly powerful but only if you understand exactly what you're doing otherwise it will happily make a big mess.


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andybp85yesterday at 6:01 PM

if you have to understand exactly what you're doing, why not just... do it?

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happymellonyesterday at 12:18 PM

> Faster code, higher quality code, overall smaller.

I'll have to take your word for it, I have yet to see a PR that used AI that wasn't slop.

> AI is not a hammer, it's a Lathe

I would liken it more to dynamite.

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