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Just started at a company and the amount of irresponsible AI use is appalling. I asked an employee whose job involves AI adoption/training how large their diffs
by yungtunafish 3mo ago
Just started at a company and the amount of irresponsible AI use is appalling. I asked an employee whose job involves AI adoption/training how large their diffs are for pull requests. They told me that their diffs are "As much as the model can produce given its reasoning level".
In the end, this is going to create unmaintainable code that no one understands. It also discourages reviewing the code because no dev can meaningfully review 1000s of lines of code in a day while also accomplishing their tasks.
NOTE: I am still pro AI, just like I am pro heavy machinery. I just don't want people to cut off their legs...
- dominotw 3mo agowhy do you care how large the diffs are. isnt there any other way to measure if ai is producing value?
- chrisandchris 3mo agoNot OP, but I think it's not about producing value now, but how much it will cost in the long term. If you have unmaintaable code that is N times larger than a hand-written codebase, what is the cost to be?
- yungtunafish 3mo agoIts about the team being able to review the code to tell if its slop or not. It's hard to meaningfully review huge changes to a codebase for one PR. Just imagine if there are 5 PRs a day with 1000+ insertions. It leads to the production codebase being somewhat of a black box imo
- hoppp 3mo agoYeah, I dread going back to work as my position has transformed from full stack dev to Ai code unfucker...
- Terr_ 3mo agoI'm not scared of trying to unfuck LLM code per se, but I'm very afraid of doing it in a company that's still simultaneously adding 10x more...
- chris_fullcycle 3mo agoIf the code works, then is the technical debt a problem? AI can already write the code better than most developers, it just may not be doing so at this time because of the person prompting it. At some point, either somebody will get there hands on it who knows how to direct their AI to clean it up, or AI will get good enough on its own to simply do it.