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

Re:A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code by gerdesj on Monday November 09, 2026 @08:46PM (#50435054)

"Now you know how everyone felt when horses were replaced by cars"

A horse can't do 70mph for 600 miles between feeds. A horse can travel across obstacles that a car would find impossible.

It's horses for courses and a mangled analogy.

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Re:A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code by Refreeze5224 on Monday November 09, 2026 @10:30PM (#50435715)

If you weren't trying to miss the analogy, you'd realize every significant technology of the last few centuries gave working people hope for less work for them. And it never happened. So expecting it with AI is fool's gold.

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Re:A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code by mixmastamyk on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @12:06PM (#50443142)

I meant in the sense that a person can’t do their best at knowledge work that many hours a day. It simply doesn’t make sense, for boss or worker.

Queue up longer term work at the end of the day and go home.

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