Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance

Re:Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance by matsemann on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @04:36AM (#49430688)

Sure, but I'm only able to do that because I'm intimately aware of everything in the code base. The more I do this where the LLM ends up writing the code (even based on my decisions), the less good critique I'll be able to give in the future.

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Re:Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance by bogdanoff_2 on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @10:23AM (#49434687)

Is that the experience you had? What if you ask it questions about the codebase?

I find AI agents really great for codebase exploration and understanding how it works. In some ways even moreso than from manual implementation since it's easier to get a global picture.

You can also ask it questions like "are there recurring patterns of how X is done in the codebase?" to which it might answer sometime like "there are actually three competing patterns" and tell you what they are and the exact files, and then you can choose to refactor them if you want.

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Re:Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance by matsemann on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @02:27PM (#49438437)

Not everything is encoded in code, though.

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Re:Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance by bogdanoff_2 on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @05:28PM (#49440911)

Like what?

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