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Agreed. I think a core problem is many developers (on HN) don't realise how "bad" so much human written code is.

I've seen unbelievably complex logistics logic coded in... WordPress templates and plugins to take a random example. Actually virtually impossible to figure out - but AI can actually extract all the logic pretty well now.

> Agreed. I think a core problem is many developers (on HN) don't realise how "bad" so much human written code is.

what do you think "AI" is trained on exactly?

finally the right question! I would upvote you 1,000 times if I could!

this is why they need a senior/seasoned developer behind them. for things that can simply be learned directly (e.g. from man/docs) it rocks, without guidance. for other things it needs guidance

there are many millions of people writing code… that’s way too many to get any good quality. you might get lucky and get involved with codebase which does not make you dizzy (or outright sick) but most of us are not that lucky

Like it means AI cannot be even worse