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Re:AI usage generates a fragile codebase by curt15 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:08PM (#50443907)
How do engineers internalize the codebase now? Do they just ask Claude and nod their head "because Claude said so"?
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Re:AI usage generates a fragile codebase by emoII on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:17PM (#50444042)
Yes, and osmosis
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Re:AI usage generates a fragile codebase by simonjgillespie on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @04:23PM (#50446494)
+Coneheads and Telepathy.
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Re:AI usage generates a fragile codebase by fernandotakai on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:30AM (#50452656)
yup. and it's incredibly annoying, specially when a new joiner is writing a PR that a more experienced employee is reviewing.

i had to argue with someone, more than once, that "cursor is wrong about this assumption because i originally wrote this" because they just accepted whatever model they used as truth.

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