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1. LittleTimothy ◴[] No.42140543[source]
>Instead of trying to force genAI tools to tackle thorny issues in legacy codebases, human experts should do the work of refactoring legacy code until genAI can operate on it smoothly

Instead of genAI doing the rubbish, boring, low status part of the job, you should do the bits of the job no one will reward you for, and then watch as your boss waxes lyrical about how genAI is amazing once you've done all the hard work for it?

It just feels like if you're re-directing your efforts to help the AI, because the AI isn't very good at actual complex coding tasks then... what's the benefit of AI in the first place? It's nice that it helps you with the easy bit, but the easy bit shouldn't be that much of your actual work and at the end of the day... it's easy?

This gives very similar vibes to: "I wanted machines to do all the soul crushing monotonous jobs so we would be free to go and paint and write books and fulfill our creative passions but instead we've created a machine to trivially create any art work but can't work a till"