Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit

Re:Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit by teiferer on Friday May 08, 2026 @01:54AM (#48059111)

What we are seeing so far come out of the AI agent era is reduced not increased code quality. The few advances are by far negated by all the slop that's thrown around and that's unlikely to change.

> any useful piece of software has been fuzz tested, property tested and formally verified.

That would require effort. Human effort and extra token cost. Not going to happen, people want to rather move fast an break things.

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Re:Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit by Hfuffzehn on Friday May 08, 2026 @02:26AM (#48059363)

Isn't blaming AI for that similar to blaming C for buffer overflows?

More people are producing more code because of easier tools. Most code is bad. But that's not the tools fault.

And in the end it is a problem of processes and culture.

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Re:Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit by teiferer on Friday May 08, 2026 @02:32AM (#48059416)

We are not in disagreement here. I'm not blaming AI, I'm blaming the culture around its use.

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Re:Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit by tclancy on Friday May 08, 2026 @12:57PM (#48065767)

>What we are seeing so far come out of the AI agent era is reduced not increased code quality.

I am not disagreeing in the main, but I wonder about the net effect. Again, this is total speculation on my part. If I vibe-slop a half dozen apps this week (and I might, just you watch), the overall raw code quality in the universe got worse. But if in the space of the same time, two major security holes got patched (assume there was no net amount of code changed), didn't things actually get better?

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