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by MyOutfitIsVague 483 days ago
It's going to look similar to the trend of off-shoring developer jobs to the lowest bidder over seas. I made my career cleaning up the webs of technical debt that many companies accrued.

LLM code assistants in the hands of a skilled developer are a productivity multiplier. In the hands of a novice, they bloom technical debt like cancer. Expect rapid cost cutting, followed in about a year or two my panicked recruiting of expensive contractors to fix the unmaintainable mess, making the whole endeavor a loss (which looked good enough on the books for enough time to earn raises and bonuses for managers).
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cratermoon 483 days ago
I've been following developments since OpenAI's 2020 announcement with exactly this in mind. My intent is to understand

- how these tools are being hyped for programming

- the kinds of things inexperienced or poor programmers are using the tools for

- the errors and failure modes typically resulting from naive usage or misuse

- mitigation strategies derived from well-known techniques of dealing with legacy systems, applied to the particulars of AI-generated code and systems.

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