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>>Devs can use their noggins Can =/= Will And as also pointed out by others, it not only requires effort, but knowledge, and that knowledge will be systematic

by toss1 4y ago

>>Devs can use their noggins Can =/= Will And as also pointed out by others, it not only requires effort, but knowledge, and that knowledge will be systematically degraded the more AI-ish code generation is used. OTOH, those with super-diligent hacker attitudes will start to learn how to find the flaws in generated code and optimize it, so leveraging the tool, but most will just move on to the next task/ticket as soon as the AIish code passes the unit tests. So, super-leveraging AI-generated code will be rare.

brookst 4y ago
> And as also pointed out by others, it not only requires effort, but knowledge, and that knowledge will be systematically degraded the more AI-ish code generation is used. How is that different than the plague of junior devs we've always had? Devs will get more senior by identifying and correcting issues in AI code rather than code from their peers. Seems OK, like we just got a whole lot more coding capacity.