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Re:Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on emplo... by stackbutterflow on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @06:22AM (#47059861)
10 days ago someone was making this claim about copilot on legacy code: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46932609

> Github Copilot has been great in getting that code coverage up marginally but ass otherwise.

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Re:Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on emplo... by slopinthebag on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @01:33PM (#47064441)
That's a completely different claim. Or do you think an AI can always, without fail, produce working code in every situation? That's trivially false.
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Re:Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on emplo... by stackbutterflow on Thursday February 19, 2026 @05:10AM (#47072148)
It's also trivially true that an AI has at least once been able to write a working hello world.

When someone claims that AI can't generate working code I assume that it means consistently generating working code. We're talking about a tool. It has to work more often than not and on codebases that we tend to work with, i.e legacy code.

Personally I don't claim that because I'm using everyday to generate working code.

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