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by arp242 873 days ago
> In a world where AI can read our codebase, ingest a prompt, and quickly output "correct" if not clean and concise code, and then be able to iterate on code with more prompt, do we need all the same patterns we used to adopt when humans were painstakingly writing every line of code?

That world does not exist, so currently this line of thinking is academic.

Perhaps it will exist in the future, but it's far from a certainty if that will come to pass, and unclear on what kind of time-frame. Personally I'm quite skeptical any of us will see it within our lifetimes.