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A line of code is written once but read ten times. AI making it cheap to write will only increase the maintenance burden. And if you need AI to maintain AI writ
by speed_spread 3y ago
A line of code is written once but read ten times. AI making it cheap to write will only increase the maintenance burden. And if you need AI to maintain AI written code, you'll have gained nothing but a new dependency in your toolbox.
- bananapub 3y ago> A line of code is written once but read ten times really? source? My counter-assertion is that I'd guess most code is basically never read - most of it is in ad-hoc PHP CMSes or VBA scripts.
- speed_spread 3y agoMy assumption about something coded in Go is that it was expected to be persistent and actively maintained. I agree that AI is good for one-off scripting purposes.