alt Hacker News> Purely AI written systems will scale to a point of complexity that no human can ever understand and the defect close rate will taper down and the token burn per defect rate scale up and eventually AI changes will cause on average more defects than they close and the whole system will be unstable.
Wow, it’s true, AI really is set to match human performance on large, complex software systems! ;)
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whateveracct • today at 1:09 AM
it's been 10y and i still haven't seen a human system that bad
maybe some that people said were that bad. but they just needed some elbow grease. remember, it takes guts to be amazing!
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detritus • yesterday at 11:09 PM
The origin of 'dark DNA' begins to make more sense through this sort of lens, except the system somehow maintained a level of compensation to fix all its flaws.
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Humans who have been writing systems like that for many years know how to maintain and modify them successfully. It’s just that our industry has a bias towards youth who don’t think they have anything to learn from those who came before them.