Comment by palata
21 hours ago
> This is one of the sadder things about AI usage getting more standard that I haven’t seen discussed much—-the barrier to entry is now monetary
Agreed. And on the one hand you have those who pay an AI to produce a lot of code, and on the other hand you have those who have to review that code. I already regularly review code that has "strange" issues, and when I say "why does it do this?" the answer is "the AI did it".
Of course, one can pay for the AI and then review and refactor the code to make it good, but my experience is that most don't.
At my work I'm just never reviewing code of certain team members and I let the team leader do it. Their hire, their problem.
If the code becomes a mess and fixing anything becomes slower… well who cares I'm paid per hour not per task done.