Comment by packetlost
1 day ago
Our ops guy has thrown together several buggy dashboards using AI tools. They're passable but impossible to maintain.
1 day ago
Our ops guy has thrown together several buggy dashboards using AI tools. They're passable but impossible to maintain.
I personally think that everyone knows AI produces subpar code, and that the infallible humans are just passing it along because they don't understand/care. We're starting to see the gaslighting now, it's not that AI makes you better, it's that AI makes you ship faster, and now shipping faster (with more bugs) is more important because "tech debt is an appreciating asset" in the world where AI tools can pump out features 10x faster (with the commensurate bugs/issues). We're entering the era of "move fast and break stuff" on steroids. I miss the era of software that worked.
Yep, bugs are already just another cost of doing business for companies that aren’t user-focused. We can expect buggier code from now on. Especially for software where the users aren’t the ones buying it.
Disclaimer because I sound pessimistic: I do use a lot of AI to write code.
I do feel behind on the usage of it.
I really wish we would shift back towards quality and reliability being major selling points in software. There's only a handful of projects I'm aware of that emphasize it and they're both pleasures to use: Obidian (note app) and Linear (ticket tracking)