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Execs Confused and Horrified by the Huge AI Bills After Thinking They Could Replace Workers for Free (futurism.com)
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[โ€“] 22 points 4 months ago (6 children)

I know what you mean, but the tech debt problem will never get resolved.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Of course but the cost can be mitigated. I've seen an AI built project and the outcome is that you pretty much have to continue using AI to continue development because it's borderline incomprehensible for humans. When AI fails to continue development you scrap the entire project and start from scratch.

    I imagine all companies that allowed AI to go wild in their codebase have a lot of components that need to be rebuilt from the ground up.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    In theory, completely rewriting legacy software with AI could be a great thing - doing so every 3 or 4 years, allowing newer and better AI to tackle the task, optimizing for every development made in technology or standards.

    However, this still requires human minds to define, guide, and verify these projects. AI opens up possibilities for better development, but executives seem determined to fritter away such potential by axing the human element.

    It is like a certain story...

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 4 months ago*

    I don't know how much AIs can be useful on big ass projects, but it def was useful for me when i had to look at the code of a project i made 1 year ago, i was so much worse at writing code and it was such a mess that ultimately i used an AI agent to rewrite it
    Do i feel dirty? Yep
    Has it saved time? YES

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  • [โ€“] 13 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    The tech debt always gets paid one way or another. Either preemptively, as part of ongoing maintenance; or after a data breach in the subsequent lawsuit and settlement; or in the slow, inexorable trickle of increased infrastructure costs and lost business from slow dependencies and ineffectual bandaid solutions.

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