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Software Engineers Are Facing an Existential Crisis As They Drown In Horrendous AI Code (tech.yahoo.com)
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[โ€“] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 19 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

If I got an AI-written codebase hard to navigate, I'd bill the AI usage it took to clean it up and, on top of it, the hours I have to put to actually do the job. We can definitely use AI to write good code, but it takes the kind of professional criteria that vibe coding lacks in order to do that.

[โ€“] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world -2 points 6 hours ago

We can definitely use AI to write good code

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