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Comment by lokar | Hacker News Reader

I worry that means the bad code / schema / design never gets improved.

I've spent a lot of my career cleaning up stuff like that, I guess with AI we just stop caring?

I wonder just what goes into someone's mind, when they do not care about who in the future is gonna have to maintain what they've crafted. Nor care about the experience of the user. Nor even feel accountable when they haven't done their due diligence to do things right.

And each time you do this, you make it worse. Now, if anyone ever wants to fix this, they have to fix your code as well.

You could say that. The schema in question was not mine nor in any way within my control. I could start up a business and write an entire app to replace the one in question. Maybe I could even get you to donate some money to fund that endeavor. Or I could spend an hour one time to code an external work around so I don't have to spend two hours a cycle fighting with that stupid app.

This is how ridiculous workflows evolve, but it really isn't AI's fault.

Never gets prematurely optimised.

If it’s causing issues you can just ask the ai to improve that part. Shit, it will often even identify problematic areas.

And if migrating from a complete dumpster fire to a cleaner working system sounds hard, I’ve got news. AI can do that for you too! Just get it to write the migration files.

This is what it means to be a developer from today onwards…

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