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by tokioyoyo 394 days ago
Does it matter? The selling point of AI generated code is, eventually, you won't care what's happening in your code base and things just "work". It's like 95% of people who code (99%?) don't know what compilers do. Throw away what is collapsing, bring up new stuff, rinse and repeat.
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joks 394 days ago
The selling point to you is that you can't fix problems, you just have to reimplement everything every time anything fails?
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tokioyoyo 393 days ago
Not to me, to anyone who is buying up the solution. We work in very general paradigm of "write code, see something wrong, fix it up, deploy, now it works without that problem". The one that's being desired is "here's list of things i want to work, make it automagically work". How it gets there, doesn't matter, because, only us, engineers, care about code. If it needs to be reimplemented to fix up a bug or introduce a new feature, let it be.
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lyu07282 394 days ago
There were always people who only cared if it "just works", that part isn't exactly new. I think what we are saying is that good code matters beyond what you can understand or appreciate, until it blows your face off. This isn't something we could ever convince you of, and...

> Throw away what is collapsing, bring up new stuff, rinse and repeat.

hearing you trying to explain yourself makes us even more worried than before.

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tokioyoyo 393 days ago
Don't get me wrong, I don't support it, but at this point, I've heard enough from the upper-stakeholders to get what they're imagining in their head. Basically, think of a system that takes a long list of requirements, then just magically makes a working code out of it. Then automagically takes bug reports, fixes them, and adds it to the list of the requirements. Rinse and repeat to make sure things just work. The higher up you go in the chain of command, the more you realize that, genuinely nobody cares about code quality, engineers and etc. in any of the companies that are not solely tech companies.

Again, the selling point to higher ups is that you won't need to deal with code anymore, because things will just "work". How? I don't know, but that's what they're imagining and trying to cash into.

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douglasisshiny 394 days ago
This whole thread has to be satire.
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