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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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inSenCite ◴[14 Nov 24 22:47 UTC] No.42142037[source]▶
On one hand I agree with this conceptually, but on the other hand I've also been able to use AI to rapidly clean up and better structure a bunch of my existing code.

The blind copy-paste has generally been a bad idea though. Still need to read the code spit out, ask for explanations, do some iterating.

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1. ImaCake ◴[14 Nov 24 23:35 UTC] No.42142460[source]▶
Yeah LLMs are pretty good at doing things like moving a lambda function to the right spot or refactoring two overlapping classes to a base class. Often it only saves five minutes but that adds up over time.