Comment by spiderice
5 hours ago
> AI does not solve this problem
AI absolutely solves that problem. Just about every prompt "fixes" the dried out pieces of the code. And it's only getting better at that every month.
Sometimes I feel like people are experiencing AI so differently that it makes talking about it nearly impossible.
I think we are.
It's hard to say because no one actually describes what and how they are doing to get AI to successfully refactor or operate in large code bases.
My experience is, slop on slop. Frontier models still can't handle even modest sized refactors without explicit hand holding. I still don't trust models with production scale refactors.
Apparently, everyone has the magic sauce and I'm blind. Or our definition of quality and production grade is very different.
Please enlighten me.