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In five years time, some CTO will review the mysterious outage or technical debt in their organisation. (aus.social)
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In five years time, some CTO will review the mysterious outage or technical debt in their organisation.

They will unearth a mess of poorly written, poorly -documented, barely-functioning code their staff don't understand.

They will conclude that they did not actually save money by replacing human developers with LLMs.

#AI #LLM #LargeLanguageModels #WebDev #Coding #Tech #Technology @technology

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[-] spmatich@ioc.exchange 2 points 9 months ago

@veronica @ajsadauskas @technology The hype around AI in software engineering seems to be that it is ‘proven’ that devs produce code quicker. it is going to be interesting to see if the corporate world values code quality over development velocity. There seems to be a pervasive belief that “move fast and break things” is how the big guys do software engineering. A few points to note:

  1. this idiom only applies when you fail fast, realize it, and address the problem that has been introduced.
  2. Break things does not mean enshittify ie create tech debt by virtue of poor code
  3. It really only applies if you have enough development resources to do the rework. That is to say, can afford to get it wrong often.
    #AI #copilot
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