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by rib3ye 15 days ago
> Worse still, the AI tooling mostly works. It’s not (yet) causing any kind of catastrophe. The code isn’t quite as clean, and it’s a bit less well-understood, but it’s good enough

And there it is.

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That line stuck out to me too.

Engineers have known that bad engineering cultures cause tiny errors and imprecise code to compound into systemic problems.

Why is this suddenly not a problem? If your AI agent is wrong 5% of the time, what do you think happens when you run it a 1000 times?