[sedatk]

> It doesn't matter if it's slop as long as it works

I agree with most of what you said, but that statement doesn't take the time dimension into account. Slop accumulates, and eventually becomes unmanagable. We need to teach AI to become lean engineers too.

[reenorap]

I have only seen AI make codebases better, and I'm talking about it making some pretty nuanced changes. I think mass-rewriting of projects is possible these days with AI.

[sedatk]

I disagree on both fronts. Unguided AI can be a very efficient tech debt generator.

[danaw]

just last week AI led a developer on our team to brick our git history when he was attempting to fix a deploy. he's not a git expert but an llm should of not led him that far astray, no?

i see on a weekly basis where if an llm was left to do what its initial direction was without human oversight it would have broken otherwise working programs

[reenorap]

Your developer didn't have anyone reviewing the work he was checking in? Or he didn't have the common sense to ask anyone else on the team to verify?

[danaw]

it was related to a deploy issue not a PR and he's the sole developer on a small team, i just consult part time. the example is less relevant; we are seeing developer delegate their understanding to the confidence of an LLM