Comment by alex_sf
11 hours ago
> It’s either a maintenance issue. e.g., Opus recommended and implemented a fix for a database corruption crash. This was ~400 lines of code with many moving parts. I reviewed, and found out Android Room library already handles this recovery case, and all I needed was a 10 liner PR that catches this exception and ignores it.
I understand this, but I just can't bring myself to care. I've been doing professional software work for almost two decades. These sorts of improvements/time savers are great without AI. With AI? Whatever. It's fine.
When the underlying lib has an issue, it'll be quicker to debug with the whole thing in context.
So exactly what value are you adding, then?
I take the specifications from the customer and type them into the AI
One hopes you are better at that than the many others who are doing the same.
You do realize that letting the LLM produce more output means that maintenance will be more expensive? I can easily see a world where claude and gpt are producing more tokens to sell you more tokens.
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