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JohnMakin ◴[] No.46196917[source]
This article mentions cost to ship, but ignores that the largest cost of any software project isn't consumed by how long it takes to get to market, but by maintenance and addition of new features. How is agentic coding doing there? I've only seen huge, unmaintainable messes so far.
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bdangubic ◴[] No.46196999[source]
one year in, AI slop > Human-written slop
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jimbokun ◴[] No.46197227[source]
Does this mean the AI slop is higher quality or that there's more of it?
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1. bdangubic ◴[] No.46198868{3}[source]
certainly not more of it now, we have decades and decades of human-written code if I am understanding the question correctly.

all's I am saying is that "anti-AI" HN crowd literally glorifies human-written code every second of every day here, "AI slop this, AI code unmaintainable that..." I have been a contractor for many years now and usually brought on to fix shit and human-written code is in vast majority of cases much worse compared to AI generated code. the sample size of the latter is smaller but my general argument remains. I think people that write these "AI slop" comments should pick their favorite language/framework/... and then go to github and browse through codebases, written by humans (ignore commits before xxxxxx) and then see if they like what they see :)