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Re:Clean code in the age of coding agents by lopsotronic on Thursday April 09, 2026 @11:27AM (#47704986)
The departments / roles that LLMs most deeply need to be pointed at - business development, contracts, requirements, procurement - are the places least likely get augmented, due to how technology decisions are made structurally, socially.

I've already heard - many times - that the place that needs the LLMs isn't really inside the code. It's the requirements.

History has a ton of examples of a new technology that gets pushed, but doesn't displace the culture of the makers & shakers. Even though it is more than capable of doing so and indeed probably should.

Re:Clean code in the age of coding agents by Garlef on Thursday April 09, 2026 @05:47PM (#47710620)
Not sure: The LLMs seem to be okay at coding recently but still horrible at requirements and interface design. They never seem to get the perspective right.

One example I recently encountered: The LLM designed the client/consumer facing API from the perspective of how it's stored.

The result was a collection of CRUD services for tables in a SQL db rather than something that explained the intended use.

Good for storage, bad for building on it.