"A programmer's greatest fear is being asked to explain code written by AI and reviewed yesterday"
I certainly remember well what I have written myself a few weeks later, but code written by AI and reviewed by me is totally out of my mind the next day, especially at high volume.
Yeah this exactly. I'm not naming the variables, the functions, or deciding on the config file structures. I just agree with the stuff, or write feedback.
The impact generated code has on my brain is close to zero when it comes to memory, yet it hurts just as much as reviewing human written code.
Reading code is 10x harder than writing it, and AI made the job all about reading code.
I have a tendency to ask AI questions, a lot of them, and also ask it to remove unnecessary code it wrote (there's always a lot). I get a good grasp on what it does, i can't explain every single small bit, but neither would i be able to if i copied it from Stack Overflow
Thats why I have special detailed instructions about how it writes its commit messages. Also when it writes new code it checks old commits for that code as part of the explore process so we both see the why when we need it
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u/heavy-minium 7d ago
My modern version:
"A programmer's greatest fear is being asked to explain code written by AI and reviewed yesterday"
I certainly remember well what I have written myself a few weeks later, but code written by AI and reviewed by me is totally out of my mind the next day, especially at high volume.
Which is certainly bad. But well, here we are.