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  • I actually start out with a solid mental model of what I want to do, ending up with small unit tested classes/functions that all pass code review.

    You said elsewhere that you’re not correcting the AI, haha. Sounds like you only don’t need to correct it because you’re guiding it away from it’s own weak spots.

    So don’t sell yourself short.

    The AI hate here is because it is oversold to people who will only make a mess with it. It can be lovely in the right hands.

    It’s mostly in the wrong hands, today.


  • As a matter of fact, I can’t even remember the last time it happened when programming.

    AI can only generate the world’s most average quality code. That’s what it does. It repeats what it has seen enough times.

    Anyone who is really never correcting the AI is producing below average code. (Edit: Or expertly guiding it, as you pointed out elsewhere in the thread.)

    I mean, I get paid either way. But mixing all of the worlds code into a thoughtless AI slurry isn’t actually making any progress. In the long term, a code base with enough uncorrected AI input will become unmaintainable.