alt Hacker News> AI is here to stay
That's true, but it doesn't have to stay in this form.
> with AI coding IS faster and quality is better than ever before.
Citation needed, because the last study I read about was painting a completely different picture about code quality. Also, just because the AI pulling and remixing code from a known repository with high quality doesn't mean your code will be at the same quality automatically. Passing tests is not enough.
> Ideally you want your luddite fired along with the slop generators.
The thing is it's not possible to see who generates slop and who generates code, and if you fire the only people who knows about the codebase intimately, you'll be on a very exciting, possibly fatal ride. I don't recommend this. AI doesn't know your history and trade-offs. These guys do, and can guide you to clear.
AI can't.
Believing that AI will create bug-free code from start is believing that Rust is the silver bullet.
There are no silver bullets.
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> The thing is it's not possible to see who generates slop and who generates code, and if you fire the only people who knows about the codebase intimately, you'll be on a very exciting, possibly fatal ride. I don't recommend this.
This is exactly what I said in my top comment. This is a huge problem.
The reason that we can (not that everyone, or even most people will) create higher quality software now is that it is now much easier to try out a bunch of edge and corner cases, which would have previously often required a prohibitive amount of time to set up and run. It's a dream! I can certainly believe that people aren't taking advantage of this, but they should be!
But I totally agree with you about the measurement problem. I think it's a very difficult time to be a hiring and firing manager.