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Ask HN: Is anyone else sick of AI splattered code

75 points throwaway-ai-qs | 1 comments | 17 Sep 25 17:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.214s | source

Between code reviews, and AI generated rubbish, I've had it. Whether it's people relying on AI to write pull request descriptions (that are crap by the way), or using it to generate tests.. I'm sick of it.

Over the year, I've been doing a tonne of consulting. The last three months I've watched at least 8 companies embrace AI generated pip for coding, testing, and code reviews. Honestly, the best suggestions I've seen are found by linters in CI, and spell checkers. Is this what we've come to?

My question for my fellow HNers.. is this what the future holds? Is this everywhere? I think I'm finally ready to get off the ride.

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Herring ◴[17 Sep 25 18:01 UTC] No.45279184[source]▶
AI will keep improving

https://epoch.ai/blog/can-ai-scaling-continue-through-2030

https://epoch.ai/blog/what-will-ai-look-like-in-2030

There's a good chance that eventually reading code will become like inspecting assembly.

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1. runjake ◴[17 Sep 25 18:04 UTC] No.45279227[source]▶
> AI will keep improving

Agree. But most code already generated won't be improved until many years from now.

> There's a good chance that eventually reading code will become like inspecting assembly.

Also agree, but I believe it will be very inefficient and complex code, unlike most written assembly.

I'm not sure tight code matters to anyone but maybe 0.0001% of us programmers, anymore.