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QuantumNoodletoday at 3:27 PM1 replyview on HN

Some of the code bases I have at work are legacy spaghetti -- hard to reason about. I too employ the prompt and pray strategy and then see if CI fails. I can only be surgical where I already have a grasp on the codebase, or if I was involved from the beginning.

Morally, I dislike what AI is doing to the profession. Rigor is suffering.


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psunavy03today at 4:39 PM

It's also possible to point the AI at legacy spaghetti and say "document this in detail" as a starting point for unspaghettifying it.