Comment by bix6
10 hours ago
> and whether any human specifically understands any particular part will mostly not matter.
This is how I feel. It’s building things for me that work. I don’t care how it works under the hood in many cases.
10 hours ago
> and whether any human specifically understands any particular part will mostly not matter.
This is how I feel. It’s building things for me that work. I don’t care how it works under the hood in many cases.
It's not about caring how it works. It's about caring that it keeps working at all even after you add stuff to it for a year or three (and nearly all software written by companies is software they evolve).
And who’s to say it won’t? It’s working now. I’m adding stuff and it’s still working. Why won’t that continue in year 3?
If you carefully read the agent's output you'll see why. It adds layers upon layers of workarounds and defences that hide serious problems, until the codebase reaches a point where the agent can no longer understand it and work with it. All the tests pass right up until the moment when adding a feature or fixing a bug causes another bug, and then nothing and no one can save the codebase anymore.
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Maintaining software is like 80% of the job.
Because the API’s it uses will change? Nothing in tech is static. And that’s just going to get worse re: this whole AI thing.