The Last Generation to Read Source Code

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2 pointsdonutshop3 comments

It's going to be sorta difficult to debug code if you're not reading it (or able to read it). Unless you'll just keep asking for new versions, hoping the bugs aren't there? I really can't see stable products if they're not things that have a debugging history.

Why would AI generate source code? Why not generate binaries directly if no one will read it?

These days, I worry less about my code containing slop, and more about dependencies I use becoming slopped. I worry about AWS, having a great track record pre-AI-layoffs, now having outages three times in as many months. I can eschew the slop in my own projects, but as this article points out, we all use code and frameworks that we didn't write.

It might go that way - skip the higher level languages or an AI fit to purpose language. Right now we want to have a comfort feeling for being able to read the code if we need to. I would love to see a study of a year ago the percentage of code reviewed vs today’s AI generated code

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