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by cdchn 592 days ago
Thankfully it seems like AI is best at automating the most tedious and arguably most useless endeavor in software engineering- rewriting perfectly good code in whatever the language du jour is.
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disgruntledphd2 592 days ago
Again, what AI is good at shows the revealed preferences of the training data, so it does make sense that it would excel at pointless rewrites.
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protomolecule 591 days ago
Legacy code in a dynamically typed language is never good.
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