alt Hacker NewsMy (much smaller than Stripe) company is well over 4.5M at this point, and the graph is very much exponential.
AI has been a huge problem here: the amount of code is just exploding. Quality of the produced code is another matter.
My (much smaller than Stripe) company is well over 4.5M at this point, and the graph is very much exponential.
AI has been a huge problem here: the amount of code is just exploding. Quality of the produced code is another matter.
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I recently wrote a very esoteric Python script. 100 lines of code. No classes, no functions, but yes argparse.
I've tried out the latest open source models on the task. They go bananas. It's like Enterprise fizzbuzz (https://github.com/enterprisequalitycoding/fizzbuzzenterpris...). They love classes and imports and reinventing the wheel. A great way for me to tell trash AI slop code is it'll define a useful constant then 15 lines later do it again with a different name.
They love making code that looks impressive. "Wow look at all the classes and functions. It's so scalable. It's so dynamic. It validates every minutae against multiple schema and solves a problem I never thought about." But it was trash code. One really was 400 lines and it didn't even look like it would work. Can't even imagine what it means for 4.5M moderately good human lines to become what? 27M fluffy filler repeat lines that don't even make sense?