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by eatsyourtacos 37 days ago
>Yep. The only people I've heard saying that generated code is fine are those who don't read it.

If you already have a mature code base, then it's very easy to get AI to write excellent code. It has a ton of documentation on what you already do, how you do things, functions to use etc.

I read all the changes AI does. I work in small chunks.

>Even if you have an architecture in mind, and even if the agent follows it, sooner or later it will need to be reconsidered

The agent can modify the structure you want to change to 100x faster than you can. That's the beauty of it. We all know how hard it is manually to make architectural changes once you've started to lock into something.

These comments just show me you must not be using AI in the right way, or haven't used it enough to learn "how" to use it. I've been using claude code months now at full speed. You are simply wrong that it doesn't generate good code.

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> I work in small chunks

I'm surprised this still needs to be said. I'm convinced that posts like these are from people that let the LLM run wild. Small chunk PRs is the key whether its a human or an LLM