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As someone who works at a place where we do a lot of code analysis and also research AI's effect on code quality, if you do not even so much as look at your code anymore, I do not believe you are creating maintainable, quality software. Maybe you don't need to, or care to, but it's definitely not what's sustainable in long-term product companies. AI is a force multiplier - it makes bad worse, it _can_ make good bette…
> if you care about long-term sustainable, quality software If software becomes cheaper to make it amortizes at a higher rate, ie, it becomes less valuable at a faster clip. This means more ephemeral software with a shorter shelf-life. What exactly is wrong with a world where software is borderline disposable? I’ve been using Photoshop since the 90s and without having watched the features expand over the years I don’…
One problem is that people don't like learning new software interfaces, and another is that communities help support software, but communities need stable, long-lived software to foster.