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simonwyesterday at 6:11 PM2 repliesview on HN

I want to use AI to ship more and more code faster and better. If AI means our product quality goes down we should figure out better ways to use it.


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coldteayesterday at 8:31 PM

I'm betting on it meaning the product quality going down - and technical debt increasing, which will be dealt with more AI in a downward spiral. Meanwhile college CS majors wont ever bother learning the basics (as AI will handle their coursework, and even their hobby work). Then future AI will train on previous AI output, with the degredation that brings...

slopinthebagtoday at 5:05 AM

Shouldn't you want to ship less code that does more? Since when was LoC the relevant benchmark for engineering?

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