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AI makes tech debt more expensive

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466 points 0x63_Problems | 1 comments | 14 Nov 24 16:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.267s | source
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leptons ◴[14 Nov 24 17:00 UTC] No.42138221[source]▶
I asked the AI to write me some code to get a list of all the objects in an S3 bucket. It returned some code that worked, it would no doubt be approved by most developers. But on further inspection I noticed that it would cause a bug if the bucket had more than 1000 objects because S3 only delivers 1000 max objects per request, and the API is paged, and the AI had no ability to understand this. So the AI's code would be buggy should the bucket contain more than 1000 objects, which is really, really easy to do with an S3 bucket.
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1. awkward ◴[14 Nov 24 18:18 UTC] No.42139303[source]▶
Most AI code is kind of like that. It's sourced from demo quality examples and piecemeal paid work. The resulting code is focused on succinctly solving the problem in the prompt. Factoring and concerns external to making the demo work disappear first. Then any edge cases that might complicate the result get tossed.