[eranation]

I’ve been on and off and on the bandwagon on this.

My current verdict. When used properly, and if you actually read the code, pushback when needed and don’t get approval fatigue, and also practice hand coding here and there, you can definitely get immense productivity boosts while not compromising on quality. The issue is blindly accepting AI code, architecture, “are you sure this is prod ready?” “Ok ship it” is not going to end well. Too many times I caught the top SOTA models, 1M context, effort on max, suggest or do terrible things and say it with confidence.

TLDR if you read the code (and understand the architecture), and know when to push back. This can work amazingly well.

Otherwise you will gradually build a Rube Goldberg machine.

[iririaqq]

How many people actually have this discipline?

I think most people dont want that discipline either. engineers in the west live in a world of convenience. The loss of discipline is almost expected. Apart from those who really love it and take pride.

And we’ve seen that outsourcing to low cost regions = no discipline.