Comment by illiac786
1 day ago
How much of the windows code has been written by its current maintainers? Little.
I feel this argument is not valid, especially for large code bases.
Documentation and code quality is what is important, not who wrote the code.
A project that's 2/5/10/30/100m LoC is obviously not going to be understandable entirely in someone's head. Documentation is critical. But if I'm reading your code, and I come across something confusing or you wrote something in a weird way and I want to understand, then I just... Come and ask you. "Hey, why did you do this this way? Did you consider x?" With an AI you can't do that. IMO this point is especially important if your code base is widely deployed to the point that people use it as a learning resource or a good source to learn good practices.
Isn't windows notoriously shoddy right now, so much so that Microsoft is making a big public effort to try to improve its quality?
True. But you can pick any code base with 20 years of existence, what I said applies.