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[–] 48 points 1 month ago

ha, nice pic

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  • [–] 25 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    Its hilarious to me that before AI, I would suggest we refactor our code base to make it more readable and easier to understand and would get all the excuses. "Oh we don't have the time". " we could introduce bugs". "We would need to test that"

    Now when I mention to make the code easier for an LLM to understand, they're chomping at the bit for it.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Before AI, refactoring was expensive, high risk, unclear payoff.

    With AI, it’s cheap, higher risk, obvious payoff.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    The obvious payoff being that engineers with an actual work ethic get to fix the mess.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I also got to refractor a major headache away, it was finally cheap enough to do all in one go instead of putting in a new pattern and incrementally change. The "Do one, do one, now repeat" prompt pattern works really well for these.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Yeah... when the only documentation is CLAUDE.md...

    Still you can see why right? Improving docs/understandability for AI is good for them - they get more capable AI. Improving it for humans only helps other people, which is less of a priority.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago

    Weird website.

    I agree with the statement though.

    But it would require employers to actually invest in their offices/workers. And possibly be more independent of whatever the shareholders dictate.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Haha, imagine. A business model that includes selling a product, to customers.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    This is true not just for AI, but also adding more engineers to a project that isn't going well. No matter how many resources you throw at it, it will continue to be slowed down by the underlying problems with the team or company culture.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    definitely, I joined a company whose culture was toxic as hell. I didn't regret leaving it

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    What is this website? Is it fully AI generated? It slorps the glorp hard tho. Fuck AI

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