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Your developers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should (add 250kloc)

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I've worked with a type of (anti?) developer in my career that seems to only be able to add code. Never change or take it away. It's bizarre. There's some calculation bug, then a few lines down some code which corrects it instead of just fixing the original lines.

It's bizzare, and as horrible as you might imagine.

And it's been more than one or two people I've seen do this.

Now they have agents.

People need to understand that code is a liability. LLMs hasn't changed that at all. You LLM will get every bit as confused when you have a bug somewhere in the backend and you then work around it with another line of code in the front end. line of code

They can always generate a new backend prototype from scratch.

This sounds like some kind of learned risk aversion, like they don’t want to assume the responsibility of altering whats already there.

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