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AI makes tech debt more expensive

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465 points 0x63_Problems | 1 comments | 14 Nov 24 16:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.219s | 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. whazor ◴[15 Nov 24 00:19 UTC] No.42142747[source]▶
Imagine a single file full of complicated logic, where messing with one if statement might cause serious bugs. Here an AI will likely struggle, whereas a human could spend a couple of hours trying to work out the connections.

But if you have a code base with predictable software architectural patterns, the AI will likely recognise and help with all the boilerplate.

Of course there is a lot of middle ground between bad and good.