alt Hacker NewsI can believe that the difference between the slowest programmer in the world and the fastest AI aided programmer in the world is now 100x in terms of lines of code output. Like I can imagine a programmer writing 250 lines of code per week by hand and I can imagine an AI powered person writing 25,000 lines of code per week.
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torben-friis • today at 2:30 PM
>and I can imagine an AI powered person writing 25,000 lines of code per week.
A year of that is 1.3M code: the size of systemd, or postgres.
Can you imagine a single person writing systemd (not a POC, the current version feature complete and battle tested) from scratch in a year? If so can you point me to any such project?
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But we spent decades as an industry trying to dispel of the notion that SLOC/KLOC does not matter.
I still believe that. 250 lines of tight code that solves a specific problem in a way that others can maintain will always be better than 25k lines of code that's difficult to review and consume (and, therefore, becoming a liability).