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People loke you're the minority. Most people use the brilliant strategy if "prompt and pray" Because of AI speed is valued over everything else

• QuantumNoodle 3mo ago
  Some of the code bases I have at work are legacy spaghetti -- hard to reason about. I too employ the prompt and pray strategy and then see if CI fails. I can only be surgical where I already have a grasp on the codebase, or if I was involved from the beginning. Morally, I dislike what AI is doing to the profession. Rigor is suffering.
  • psunavy03 3mo ago
    It's also possible to point the AI at legacy spaghetti and say "document this in detail" as a starting point for unspaghettifying it.
    • thewhitetulip 3mo ago
      But won't it take a lot of time and resources to make it non legacy? Sometimes we don't get the luxury or option to work on stuff like this