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mpalmer • today at 6:00 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

    Code quality is no longer a concern to almost anyone
If that's true (and it is not), it's only because almost anyone is "making" code now. That they don't understand the importance of code quality means nothing; it remains important without them. And professionals certainly don't need to pay attention to these inane oversimplifying takes of "what software is now".

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leptons • today at 6:23 PM

My company is all-in on agentic coding. We've been building a new product with it for the last 4 months. They talk about "AI governance" but I think nobody knows what that means. They have the AI writing the code and doing code reviews and everything really.

Well, one engineer decided to take a look at the code and found one file was 20,000 lines long. It was an awful mess with too much going on. So much for "AI governance". I knew this was going to happen but these guys don't want to hear anything about being cautious with AI. The solution is always more AI.

I am looking for a new job.

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