AI didn't simplify software engineering: It just made bad engineering easier
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Re: AI didn't simplify software engineering: It just made bad engineering easier
#2It also made good engineering easier.
AI is an amplifier of existing behavior.
Re: AI didn't simplify software engineering: It just made bad engineering easier
#3Simplify? It’s like saying a factory made chair building… what?
It’s not simpler. It’s faster and cheaper and more consistent in quality. But way more complex.
Re: AI didn't simplify software engineering: It just made bad engineering easier
#4Simplify? It’s like saying a factory made chair building… what? It’s not simpler. It’s faster and cheaper and more consistent in quality. But way more complex.
Anecdotally I have not seen consistency in quality at all.
Re: AI didn't simplify software engineering: It just made bad engineering easier
#5I’m an AI skeptic and in no sense is it taking my peers job. But it does save me time. I can do research much better than Google, explore a code base, spit out helper functions, and review for obvious mistakes.
Re: AI didn't simplify software engineering: It just made bad engineering easier
#6Simplify? It’s like saying a factory made chair building… what? It’s not simpler. It’s faster and cheaper and more consistent in quality. But way more complex.
Anecdotally I have not seen consistency in quality at all.
My chairs resemble each other. Have you tried ikea?
If you are talking about code which isn’t what I said, then we aren’t there yet.
Re: AI didn't simplify software engineering: It just made bad engineering easier
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anecdotally I have not seen consistency in quality at all.
My chairs resemble each other. Have you tried ikea? If you are talking about code which isn’t what I said, then we aren’t there yet.
It’s a bad analogy because the benefits of industrial machines were predictable processes done efficiently.
Re: AI didn't simplify software engineering: It just made bad engineering easier
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Re: AI didn't simplify software engineering: It just made bad engineering easier
#9It also made good engineering easier. AI is an amplifier of existing behavior.
“ AI is an amplifier of existing behavior”
Apropos. I’m stealing that line.
Re: AI didn't simplify software engineering: It just made bad engineering easier
#10"Coding was never the hard part. Typing syntax into a machine has always been the least interesting part of building a system."
and I think these people are benefitting from it the most, people with expertise, who know their way around and knew what and how to build but did not want to do the grunt work