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by great_psy 34 days ago
My view is that ai makes it very easy to pump out a lot of code, and that makes it too time consuming to just merge it without understanding it 100%.

The person pushing the PR is getting promoted because their are delivering so mane features, but after some time the codebase is a mess.

Sure the same person might end up dealing with some of the cleaning up, but more likely those refactoring tasks end up getting spread across the team as the need arises.

People are incentivized to push out code, which under human-written coding standard usually meant a level of pro-efficiency, so they should be rewarded.

But with the new model of pushing out code with ai, a better metric of a good engineer that should be promoted would be lines deleted, or something like that. Much harder to measure, and hard to justify to management.