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esafakyesterday at 8:31 PM3 repliesview on HN

Do we know that it decreased the quality, or introduced more opportunities for bugs by simply increasing the velocity? If every commit has a fixed probability of having a bug, you'll run into more bugs in a week by going faster.


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lelanthrantoday at 6:13 AM

> Do we know that it decreased the quality, or introduced more opportunities for bugs by simply increasing the velocity?

That's an easy question to answer - you can look at outages per feature released.

You may be instead looking at outages per loc written.

leptonstoday at 7:07 AM

AI is constantly trying to introduce bugs into my code. I've started disabling it when I know exactly where I'm going with the code, because the AI is often a lot more confused than I am about where the code is going.

pydryyesterday at 8:51 PM

Do we know it increased the velocity and didnt just churn more slop?

Even before AI the limiting factor on all of the teams I ever worked on was bad decisions, not how much time it took to write code. There seem to be more of those these days.