AI usage generates a fragile codebase

Re:AI usage generates a fragile codebase by ffsm8 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @08:56AM (#50440418)

Then you're still middle-roading it from my perspective. Treating it as a black box means you're only specifying what comes out, essentially.

But to preempt a "I can't do that in my brownfield distributed monolith I'm maintaining at $dayjob": yes, that's why I said it may not be possible without refactoring.

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Re:AI usage generates a fragile codebase by rsfern on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @11:15AM (#50442430)

I think we are talking past each other a bit? I’m curious about GP’s perspective here

My point is that you can ask for unrealistic outputs even if you’re treating the system as a black box. This is the classic case of higher level managers asking for infeasible results from their engineering team because they haven’t considered they’re trying to solve the wrong problem. Depends what you’re doing but I don’t think agents tend to push back on badly specified goals unless you’re proactive about it

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Re:AI usage generates a fragile codebase by dwaltrip on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @12:04PM (#50443119)

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