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by whazor 586 days ago
Imagine a single file full of complicated logic, where messing with one if statement might cause serious bugs. Here an AI will likely struggle, whereas a human could spend a couple of hours trying to work out the connections.

But if you have a code base with predictable software architectural patterns, the AI will likely recognise and help with all the boilerplate.

Of course there is a lot of middle ground between bad and good.