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I am highly skeptical of this claim.

• bdangubic 11mo ago
  personal experience, not general claim. I am 30-years in the industry and have seen a lot of human-written code…
  • szundi 11mo ago
    Like it means AI cannot be even worse
  • bdangubic 11mo ago
    there are many millions of people writing code… that’s way too many to get any good quality. you might get lucky and get involved with codebase which does not make you dizzy (or outright sick) but most of us are not that lucky
  • martinald 11mo ago
    Agreed. I think a core problem is many developers (on HN) don't realise how "bad" so much human written code is. I've seen unbelievably complex logistics logic coded in... WordPress templates and plugins to take a random example. Actually virtually impossible to figure out - but AI can actually extract all the logic pretty well now.
    • paoaoaks 11mo ago
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    • blibble 11mo ago
      > Agreed. I think a core problem is many developers (on HN) don't realise how "bad" so much human written code is. what do you think "AI" is trained on exactly?
      • bdangubic 11mo ago
        finally the right question! I would upvote you 1,000 times if I could! this is why they need a senior/seasoned developer behind them. for things that can simply be learned directly (e.g. from man/docs) it rocks, without guidance. for other things it needs guidance