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MisterTeatoday at 3:35 PM1 replyview on HN

> Torvalds was right, code maintenance is going to be a headache thanks to LLMs.

I know someone in a senior engineering position at Epic who does nothing but clean up PR's from their off-shored Ukrainian sweat shop coders handing in AI slop because all they need to do is close a ticket to get paid. They wind up rewriting half or more of it. Epic doesn't seem to care so long as this "solution" works and saves them money by paying a few really smart people to code janitor until hopefully all of them can be replaced by LLMs.


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pc86today at 4:21 PM

As if I needed another reason not to hire people coming from Epic.

For a company as financially focused as Epic it's surprising to me they'll pay the offshored devs for simply submitting code even if it doesn't work and needs to be rewritten.

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