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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: 0.212s | source
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dcchambers ◴[14 Nov 24 17:12 UTC] No.42138389[source]▶
LLM code gen tools are really freaking good...at making the exact same react boilerplate app that everyone else has.

The moment you need to do something novel or complicated they choke up.

This is why I'm not very confident that tools like Vercel's v0 (https://v0.dev/) are useful for more than just playing around. It seems very impressive at first glance - but it's a mile wide and only an inch deep.

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holoduke ◴[14 Nov 24 17:15 UTC] No.42138440[source]▶
If can you can create boilerplate code, logging, documentation, common algorithms by AI it saves you a lot of time which you can use on your specialized stuff. I am convinced that you can make yourself x2 by using an AI. Just use it in the proper way.
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endemic ◴[14 Nov 24 17:20 UTC] No.42138509[source]▶
I feel like we should get rid of the boilerplate, rather than have an LLM barf it out.
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1. danenania ◴[14 Nov 24 18:57 UTC] No.42139816[source]▶
There's an inherent tradeoff here though. Beyond a certain complexity threshold, code that leans toward more boilerplate is generally much easier to understand and maintain than code that tries to DRY everything with layers of abstraction, indirection, and magic.