alt Hacker News> It doesn’t matter to AI whether the code is spaghetti code or not. What you said was only important when humans were maintaining the code.
In my experience using AI to work on existing systems, the AI definitely performs much better on code that humans would consider readable.
You can’t really sit here talking about architecting greenfield systems with AI using methodology that didn’t exist 6 months ago while confidently proclaiming that “trust me they’ll be maintainable”.
Well you can, and most consultants do tend to do that, but it’s not worth much.
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I wasn’t born into consulting in 1996. AI for coding is by definition the worse today that it will ever be. What makes you think that the complexity of the code will increase faster than the capability of the agents?
> Well you can, and most consultants do tend to do that
Yeah they do.
I'm familiar enough with the claims to feel confident there is plenty of nefarious astroturfing occurring all over the web including on HN.