Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance

Re:Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance by visarga on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @12:22AM (#49429035)

Yes, a 15 year old code base written by hand obviously, not by a coding agent from the start.

At the same size I only heard of AI generated projects reimplementing compilers and browser engines which come with amazing tests written by hand, but even these projects generally don't become reliable enough to use.

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Re:Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance by tharkun__ on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @12:35AM (#49429123)

Well we also have an AI first code base, new product 160k "LoC" by the same measure. Not even a year old.

That 1.9m code base, within the same time frame as the 160k was created? <10k by the same measure.

10k I can comfortably throw at a local agent on my system (see recent posts in my history). Whether I can keep it that small is another question I suppose lol!

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Re:Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance by visarga on Thursday August 27, 2026 @12:30PM (#49467452)

I agree 10K LOC is too little, I was saying "a few 10,000's of LOC"

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