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AI usage generates a fragile codebase (evanxmerz.com)
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[–] 2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

TBF inexperienced developer's generate fragile codebases too.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 hours ago

    Very true, but not at the pace or scale that LLMs do. And, in some cases they were able to be mitigated/fixed over time by the more experienced contributors, and eventually would learn and become the experienced contributors themselves!

    We accelerated the problem and nerfed the fix.

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