Re:The AI Investment Boom
by mvdtnz on Monday October 21, 2024 @01:02PM
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Good code isn't just easy to read, it's easy to change. The code in this app is brittle, tightly coupled and likely to break if the app is changed.
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Re:The AI Investment Boom
by FeepingCreature on Monday October 21, 2024 @04:48PM
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Eh. Honestly, so far Sonnet hasn't had any trouble with it. The thing is that every time it changes anything, it rewrites every line of code anyways just because I ask it "please give me the complete changed file(s) for easy copypasting."
The effort tradeoff is different for AIs than humans. Easy-to-understand-locally is more important than cheap-to-change, because it can do "read and check every line in the project" for like 20 cents. Making AIs code like humans is not playing to their strengths.
I don't think it's that bad anyways.