alt Hacker NewsI'm in the "haven't written any code in a while" boat ATM. I'd love to see examples of issues that are so big that they warrant reverting to manual coding.
My main issue has been the inconsistent quality across between model releases and the tendency to insert older APIs or documentation, especially with command line tools.
I can understand if the model struggles with a million line monolithic codebase with a decade of cruft but can't think of why it'd be too much of a pain with new codebases.
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> I'm in the "haven't written any code in a while" boat ATM
How long do you think it will be before you can't write any code because you're out of practice?
One of the dangers of engineering management is that it can turn you into a person that can no longer do the thing.
Does that even matter?
Here's one that hit the frontpage recently:
https://blog.k10s.dev/im-going-back-to-writing-code-by-hand/
What type of projects you work on, in particular how rich it is in novelty, non-googlable data points and non-trivial project-specific deviations from industry standards?
> I'd love to see examples of issues that are so big that they warrant reverting to manual coding
Ah I see your org hasnt yet had an outage caused by a bad LLM code push.
Seems like AI isn't really solving complex bugs and issues (that it itself created) in my MAUI project over the last 18 months.
Seems like it is completely hopeless at doing anything netcode consistency and performance related in game dev. Seems like unique game mechanics it doesn't do well either.
Seems like asking it specific UI stylistic changes is basically like throwing darts at a board and hoping it sticks.
Even with relatively simple things, frontier models get me about 90% of the way - and this is without evaluating how good that 90% actually is. It's the last 10% that the model fucking sucks at. And it's often the simplest things. It takes a lot of tokens and a lot of time to cajole the AI to get that last 10% working. And even then, I've just given up and had to go read the slop and fix the bug myself because it become so frustrating.
When every prompt produces a thousand line PR, you’re not very far from another million line monolith.
I’m a little more hopeful than the author though. I feel like it’s possible to manage the process so that does not happen.