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Using AI Generated Code Will Make You a Bad Programmer

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34 points cmpit | 4 comments | 22 Oct 24 12:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.735s | source
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cranberryturkey ◴[22 Oct 24 12:11 UTC] No.41913474[source]▶
fun fact: after 25 years as a software engineer in silicon valley, I'm convinced nobody cares about code quality and they never have.
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1. stuckinhell ◴[22 Oct 24 19:02 UTC] No.41917529[source]▶
I have 23 years,and I'm convinced too.
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2. souldeux ◴[22 Oct 24 19:07 UTC] No.41917570[source]▶
Only a dozen but same. Just ship the shit. Quality never mattered.
3. mewpmewp2 ◴[22 Oct 24 20:09 UTC] No.41918178[source]▶
Also most attempts at code quality lead to even worse code - into overengineered abstraction layers that no one will be able to adjust once it's inevitably realized that the assumptions were all wrong.
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4. fragmede ◴[22 Oct 24 20:20 UTC] No.41918259[source]▶
Totally. YAGNI - you ain't gonna need it. That beautiful framework you spent extra weeks writing, designing from first principles, turns out to be the wrong layer of abstraction because of a bad assumption. the client left off critical business logic details, or a pivot to a more popular feature of the program. The only question then is how to get out of that tech debt.