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by Vegenoid 259 days ago
> What's the difference between a messy codebase created by a genAI, and a messy codebase where all the original authors of the code have moved on and aren't available to ask questions?

Messy codebases made by humans are known to be a bad thing that causes big problems for software that needs to be maintained and changed. Much effort goes into preventing them and cleaning them up.

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If you want to work with AI code systems successfully then you better apply these exact same efforts. Documentation, composition, validation, evaluation, review and so on.