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by pydry 141 days ago
It has nothing to do with luddites.

Software quality about speed of delivery and lack of bugs.

If you're fine with software which gets a little bit harder to work on every time you make a change and which might blow up in unexpected ways, AI is totally fine.

Ive yet to meet many AI champions who are explicit about their desire to make that trade off though. Even the ones who downplay software quality arent super happy about the bugs.
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bfung 141 days ago
> If you're fine with software which gets a little bit harder to work on every time you make a change and which might blow up in unexpected ways,

human written code is similarly fine. Save for very few human individuals.

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trevwilson 141 days ago
> If you're fine with software which gets a little bit harder to work on every time you make a change and which might blow up in unexpected ways, AI is totally fine.

While the speed and scale at which these happen is definitely important (and I agree that AI code can pose a problem on that front), this applies to every human-written piece of software I've ever worked on too.

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