alt Hacker NewsKeep believing. To the bitter end. For such human slop codebases AI slop additions will do equally fine. Add good testing and the code might even improve over the garbage that came before.
Keep believing. To the bitter end. For such human slop codebases AI slop additions will do equally fine. Add good testing and the code might even improve over the garbage that came before.
Generating also the tests happens a little bit too often for any kind of improvement. simonw posted here a generated “something” the other day, which he didn’t know whether it’s really working or not, but he was happy that his generated, completely unchecked tests are green, and yet some other root commenter here praises him.
It needs a lot of work to not be skeptical, when when I try it, it generates shit, especially when I want something completely new, not existing anywhere, and also when these people when they show how they work with it, it always turns out that it’s on the scale of terrible to bad.
I also use AI, but I don’t allow it to touch my code, because I’m disgusted by its code quality. I ask it, and sometimes it delivers, but mostly not.