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I mean sure if long term maintenance and code quality don’t matter then I wholeheartedly agree with you. It’s spectacular for small projects, limited-scope app
by skrebbel 20d ago
I mean sure if long term maintenance and code quality don’t matter then I wholeheartedly agree with you.
It’s spectacular for small projects, limited-scope apps (eg marketing campaigns etc) and for market-testable prototypes.
But if you don’t review and edit the code, things become unmaintainable soup very fast, with subtle logic bugs all over the place. And if you do review and edit the code, when working in large nontrivial codebases, then in my experience AI doesn’t actually go faster even if it feels like that at the start of each task.
Obviously this only holds if you have any sort of code quality standard to begin with (and I agree that with small / short-lived products you don’t need one)