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yunwaltoday at 4:41 PM1 replyview on HN

> "Hey, I know you're leaning on the AI a bit, but here's what's wrong with the code: ...."

I'm generally in agreement, but I think current corporate/productivity culture and AI is a bad mix that makes this quote/sentiment feel impossible. All of the current incentives are set up to push out as much sloppy code as possible, and AI is the perfect machine for doing that in huge quantities, to the point where reviewing all of it is impossible. It's not really AI's fault (imo). There's plenty of ways to use it to design more elegant, understandable, maintainable systems. But unfortunately that's going to take a cultural shift, and part of that cultural shift involves people pushing back against AI as it's used today.


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giancarlostorotoday at 6:17 PM

I do agree, if someone's just going to shove what you say to an AI at what point do you ask "do we need to replace you with a shell script?" before they stop being overtly reliant on AI, that's a bridge too far for me, and I am all for letting Claude hack away at code for a while, and then review the code and refine it, a lot of the time even if its not perfect, it gets me like 80 to 90% of the way there, especially if I tell it HOW I want it written, and to consider edge cases.