alt Hacker NewsAnd who’s to say it won’t? It’s working now. I’m adding stuff and it’s still working. Why won’t that continue in year 3?
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titularcomment • today at 1:35 AM
Maintaining software is like 80% of the job.
techblueberry • today at 1:19 AM
Because the API’s it uses will change? Nothing in tech is static. And that’s just going to get worse re: this whole AI thing.
If you carefully read the agent's output you'll see why. It adds layers upon layers of workarounds and defences that hide serious problems, until the codebase reaches a point where the agent can no longer understand it and work with it. All the tests pass right up until the moment when adding a feature or fixing a bug causes another bug, and then nothing and no one can save the codebase anymore.