A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code

Re:A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code by beloch on Monday November 09, 2026 @08:12PM (#50434791)

For the overwhelming majority of people, doing is necessary for understanding. If you read a math or physics textbook, you might think you understand it but you won't until you do some questions. Even a history book is deceptive. Much of it will be in one ear and out the other unless you take notes, summarize, ask yourself questions, place things in a mental framework, etc..

When you rely on AI to explain code to you and then make changes to the code, the AI does most of the doing.

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Re:A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code by jdonaldson on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @12:06AM (#50436291)

Amen to that, AI sometimes doesn't even choose the right answer even when a probe of its internal state shows that it has it. It won't explain itself correctly either. We need to burn our hand in order to learn, and for there's no instruction manual for something so emergent.

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