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gspryesterday at 9:51 PM1 replyview on HN

> We'll need to figure out the techniques and strategies that let us merge AI code sight unseen.

Why do you assume that's doable? I'm not saying it's not, but it seems strange to just take for granted that it is.


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fishtoasteryesterday at 11:08 PM

Why do you assume I assume it's doable? :P

For real, I'm not certain we will ever be able to merge AI code without human review. But:

1. Every time I've confidently though "AI will never be able to do X" in the last year, I've later been proven wrong, so I'm a bit wary to assume that again without strong reasons.

2. I see blog posts by some of the most AI-forward people that seems to imply some people are already managing large codebases without human review of raw code. Maybe they're full of crap - there are certainly plenty of over-credulous bs artists in the AI space - but maybe they're not.

3. The returns on figuring this out are so incredibly high that, if it's possible, people will figure it out.

All that to say: it's far from certain, but my bias is that it is possible.

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