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Re:Ask HN: What are some engineering practices you wish woul... by manidoraisamy on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @07:58AM (#46364987)
The ones that are gone are comments/documentation in code, unit testing, design patterns, datamodel/db design. I am happy documentation is gone. But I miss design, especially db design. AI generates SQL/code with no regard for backward compatibility or future maintenance.
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Re:Ask HN: What are some engineering practices you wish woul... by dhruv_ahuja on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @09:32AM (#46365598)
I see. Do you have any examples where the design was just egregious?

From my experience generating db models/SQL schema at my last job, it did a fine job based on existing patterns and the outlined requirements. Point to note, we did optimise our AI prompts and LLM rules a lot, to the point we were able to get end to end unit tested, functional PRs out rather quickly

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