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Re:AlphaCode as a dog speaking mediocre English by whatshisface on Sunday February 06, 2022 @02:59PM (#30236371)
Programmers often feel invested in the success of their product but that's not what they're incentivized to do. They're incentivized to produce fast results that are bad in ways that you have to be a programmer to understand.

If you have to be a programmer to understand why something's bad, who's going to prevent it? This is a major unsolved problem in the structure and organization of working.

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Re:AlphaCode as a dog speaking mediocre English by solveit on Sunday February 06, 2022 @05:05PM (#30237484)
The CTO who used to be a dev. More generally anyone in management with a technical background. They may not exist in some companies, but that's not because it's "a major unsolved problem in the structure and organization of working", it's because the company sucks in that regard.
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Re:AlphaCode as a dog speaking mediocre English by Retric on Sunday February 06, 2022 @05:53PM (#30237898)
Except testers and users aren’t programmers. Code reviews are what’s supposed to catch this stuff, but it’s rare for a team lead or other programmer to investigate every single commit.
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