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I can see it in my team. We've all been using Claude a lot for the last 6 months. It's hard to measure the impact, but I can tell our systems are as buggy as ever. AI isn't a silver bullet.
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I love the fact that we just got a model really capable of doing sustained coding (let me check my notes here...) 3 months ago, with a significant bump 15 days ago.
And now the comments are "If it is so great why isn't everything already written from scratch with it?"
I'm reminded of the viral comic "I'm stupid faster" (2019?) by Shen
https://imgur.com/gallery/i-m-stupid-faster-u8crXcq
(sorry for Imgur link, but Shen's web presence is a mess and it's hard to find a canonical source)
I'm not saying this is completely the case for AI coding agents, whose capabilities and trustworthiness have seen a meteoric rise in the past year.
Dude, I blame all bugs on ai at this point. I suspect one could roughly identify AI’s entry into the game based on some metric of large system outages. Assume someone has already done this but…probably doesn’t matter.
And after 12 months, most probably no one from your team will understand what the result of half of those bugs is.
When devs outsource their thinking to AI, they lose the mental map, and without it, control over the entire system.