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AI makes tech debt more expensive

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466 points 0x63_Problems | 2 comments | 14 Nov 24 16:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.421s | source
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yawnxyz ◴[14 Nov 24 19:50 UTC] No.42140411[source]▶
I find AI most helpful with very specific, narrow commands (add a new variable to the logger, which means typescript and a bunch of other things need to be updated) and it can go off and do that. While it's doing that I'll be thinking about the next thing to be fixed already.

Asking it for higher level planning / architecture is just asking for pain

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1. davidsainez ◴[14 Nov 24 20:19 UTC] No.42140738[source]▶
Current gen AI is bad at high level planning. But I've found it useful in iterating on my ideas, sort of a rubberduck++. It helps to have a system prompt that is not overly agreeable
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2. yawnxyz ◴[14 Nov 24 21:45 UTC] No.42141564[source]▶
yes! It's definitely talked out of making some really dumb decisions