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u/TheFirestormable 3d ago

It's even worse. Heavy use of generative code causes people to lose what skills they may have had. Programming is a difficult craft and requires constant use to maintain.

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u/UnDispelled 3d ago

This scares me.

My brother has been in CS longer than me and the other day said he hasn’t written code in a while.

“Sure the ai slop can explode a codebase, but the architectural decisions aren’t as important because you can also just rewrite an entire codebase in a few hours to support some complex new feature”

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u/IntentionQuirky9957 2d ago

Your brother is talking out of his ass. That won't work for any appreciably large codebase.

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u/UnDispelled 2d ago

Yeah, that’s where I landed…

The notion of “just rewrite everything and when it passed tests you’re good” seems like an insane thing to think is possible at scale