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Re:AI usage generates a fragile codebase by hologramofham on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @07:40AM (#50439510)
> How's that different from a regular human dev doing the same thing?

Another of the shallow arguments thrown around, similar to "we don't check compiler output so..."

People learn and improve. LLMs don't learn, they follow instructions to a degree.

A human has to wrestle with it to work how you want, ergo humans are necessary already.

You can't fire the LLM and hire a competent one. The few available is all there is, they're all copies of the same thing.

You don't have a team. If you think 10 LLMs = a team of 10 people, then you don't know what a team is, how different skills and views make a big difference to outcomes.

LLMs can't innovate. They can't come to you with a great idea they came up with. They don't have ideas.

If none of these things are worth anything in your particular case, then that's ok. But let's not actually lose our minds and forget why people are intrinsically better than machines.

There are only a few arguments to support using LLMs, all of which are from people who a) want to spend less on salaries or b) sell you LLMs.

Re:AI usage generates a fragile codebase by hoppp on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @07:55AM (#50439664)
LLMS definitely improve but it's the model updates.

Teams are often hierarchical where the leaders define everything and people under them have less things to say about it. Not much different than an LLM team.