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Re:I believe there are entire companies right now under AI p... by jimbokun on Friday May 15, 2026 @07:47PM (#48155395)
Those design principles it will take us 20 years to learn are just the principles for writing good maintainable, debug-able, understandable code today. Will just take 20 years to figure out they still apply when AI writes the code, too.
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Re:I believe there are entire companies right now under AI p... by digitaltrees on Friday May 15, 2026 @08:04PM (#48155500)
No. You can use AI to code this way. I’ve successfully steered AI to implement good architecture by moving slowly and constantly course correcting
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Re:I believe there are entire companies right now under AI p... by jimbokun on Friday May 15, 2026 @11:42PM (#48156632)
Yes but most people won’t.
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Re:I believe there are entire companies right now under AI p... by digitaltrees on Saturday May 16, 2026 @04:10PM (#48163349)
Many teams did this before AI too. They start faster and end up with hard to refactor or extend code. For example, think of teams that don’t version their API /api/v1, that blocks a whole category of refactoring and extensions. Or teams that have random state transformation routes instead of following restful actions.
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Re:I believe there are entire companies right now under AI p... by therealdrag0 on Friday May 15, 2026 @08:22PM (#48155599)
Why would it take 20 years to learn? People all around me, in an AI pilled company, have been saying this the whole time,
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