alt Hacker News> Now, no one does.
I got a chuckle over this, but in my experience working on legacy systems, this is the case already. Using AI to translate/explain the code brings extra understanding.
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Zenst • today at 8:38 AM
Whilst true, it's not without its gotchas, and I saw a video the other day that elegantly highlights this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6MAZW-joCo. A false sense of confidence is bad; one that is offloaded onto somebody else is another.
Can it really explain the code if the information is not there anymore ? It was in a binder that got shredded 40 years ago by accident.
More like it will hallucinate some explanation & cause even more confusion.