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YetAnotherNickyesterday at 3:20 PM1 replyview on HN

Yes. Firstly AI forgets why it wrote certain code and with humans at least you can ask them when reviewing. Secondly current gen AI(at least Claude) kind of wants to finish the thing instead of thinking of bigger picture. Human programmers code little differently that they hate a single line fix in random file to fix something else in different part of the code.

I think the second is part of RL training to optimize for self contained task like swe bench.


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seanmcdirmidyesterday at 4:02 PM

So you live in a world where code history must only be maintained orally? Have you ever thought to ask AI to write documentation on what and why and not just write the code. Asking it to document as well as code works well when the AI needs to go back and change either.

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