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If AI writes most of the code, understanding codebases becomes the bottleneck
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Re: If AI writes most of the code, understanding codebases becomes the bottleneck
#12Lately I’ve had a contrarian feeling about AI-assisted development. If AI is going to write a large percentage of the code, the highest-leverage thing a developer can do might actually be slowing down and deeply understanding the system (not generating more code faster). I noticed I was spending more time reconstructing context than actually building: – figuring out what changed – tracing data flow – rebuilding menta…
> I noticed I was spending more time reconstructing context than actually building: – figuring out what changed – tracing data flow – rebuilding mental models before I could even prompt properly (without breaking other features) - debugging slop with more slop
Yep. We literally shifted the workload from writing the code to reviewing the code.
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