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by IlliOnato 873 days ago
The real issue is not writing the code, but debugging it. The patterns exist to make the code readable, debuggable, and thus maintainable. "Don't repeat yourself" is not to save you typing, it's to be able to fix a bug once, rather than hunting through all the code for similar instances and fixing each one, introducing new errors. If you hope that with enough prompts AI will find and fix its own bugs, I think your level of optimism is enviable :-)