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I'm really curious in what problems the codebases of startups of today will have in a few years. The internet is already full of memes about working with legacy

• trowawee 1y ago
  They'll be trash, but after a decade bouncing around startups, that's not exactly a problem unique to LLMs. There's probably going to be more startups with more trash than there used to be, but hey: that's job security.
• tom_m 1y ago
  I think about this a lot. Then I realize many are already bad to begin with. So they may not be much worse as it turns out. We'll have to see. One thing is certain though - it's an amazing time for security professionals. We already have careless developers without AI, but now? Oh boy oh boy.
  • tough 1y ago
    and 99% of them end up in startup cementery anyways, does it matter much if those codebases stink a lil more?
    • tom_m 1y ago
      True, but before they end up there, they can expose PII and all sorts of nasty stuff. It does matter.
• Quekid5 1y ago
  Sooooo much boilerplate and pointless generated tests is my prediction. EDIT: Oh, and as a sibling poster mentioned: A huge number of security vulnerabilities -- except now they can be purposefully injected by just posting random subtly-wrong code on the interweb. Not that you couldn't do that before, but reach would be much more limited unless you got your 'seemingly correct' code posted on SO.
• jryle70 1y ago
  Are you sure that, when it reaches that point -- half of the code being AI-generated, AI won't be as good as half of the developers?
  • layer8 1y ago
    Are you sure that it will?
  • varsketiz 1y ago
    Interesting question. Could you elaborate in the definition of "AI is as good as half of the developers"?