In the Age of AI, Is Code Literacy Your Superpower?

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10 points | by eddieos 18 hours ago

2 comments

  • saubeidl 18 hours ago
    The problem is that AI code is painfully verbose and annoying to read. It's like having a coworker who's kinda shit at his job and who's PRs you have to review and try to get into reasonable shape by requesting changes again and again.

    I don't know about you, but I'd rather just write the damn thing properly myself than have to deal with that.

    • maury91 33 minutes ago
      The current AI generation has an additional pain point compared to the bad coworker, it's unable to learn, you can give it a rule file but it doesn't always respect it properly and it doesn't update it itself. TLDR: the bad colleague will stop making the same mistake in the PRs the AI no

      Hopefully this will change in future generations of AI

    • add-sub-mul-div 13 hours ago
      Right, maintaining bad AI code is the new maintaining bad offshore code. I didn't want to spend my career doing the latter, either.
      • pmbanugo 11 hours ago
        Maintaining bad AI code would be committing or shipping bad AI code in the first place