alt Hacker NewsNot advocating for AI code slop--but if AI coded software works correctly, maybe it doesn't matter? Except sometimes when a specialist will have to get involved. Not a perfect analogy, but most people don't write assembly these days--they have a compiler do that. Assembly still has a place, but it's a specialist task.
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ponector • today at 6:42 AM
But the truth is: it doesn't work correctly. I see quality of software dropped significantly.
At work we are integrating with third party platform to automate excel-powered calculations. It is awful. Rendering the table in browser takes 10s or one click on Export button will throw backend in OutOfMemory state.
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> if AI coded software works correctly, maybe it doesn't matter?
The problem isn't the amount of code, it's how fitting/unfitting the abstractions are. Wrong abstractions are bugs in waiting. If there's much code with wrong abstractions, future change becomes difficult.
Source: me, I've created many bad abstractions and they led to much pain...