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Re:A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code by boogieknite on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @12:01PM (#50443072)
> learning absolutely nothing

we shifted to 100% AI gen code a month ago and i realized my knowledge acquisition has nearly frozen. sure, i can evaluate and learn a little when i recognize an inconsistency at the edge or know there are alternatives when an LLM confidently makes a decision without presenting alternatives. but for each instance i catch i assume there is at least one other thing i missed

on the flipside, this sort of means the more ignorant someone is, the faster they will produce. not a problem yet but i think it will be

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Re:A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code by codedrift_ on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @03:12PM (#50445658)
> the more ignorant someone is, the faster they will produce

It's a lot easier to produce "correct" code when they don't have a reference point for what "incorrect" code looks like. The optimistic side of me believes we'll discover new ways to scale websites because of this knowledge gap. A lot of cool tech was built in the 2000s precisely because we didn't know how stuff scaled yet.

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