AI is forcing us to write good code

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Post by sgk284 » Mon, Dec 29, 2025, 7:11 PM UTC

AI is forcing us to write good code
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Post by devhouse » Mon, Dec 29, 2025, 7:28 PM UTC

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Post by bgwalter » Mon, Dec 29, 2025, 7:51 PM UTC

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Dec 29, 2025, 7:59 PM UTC

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Post by badgersnake » Mon, Dec 29, 2025, 9:57 PM UTC

I’m increasingly finding that the type of engineer that blogs is not they type of engineer anyone should listen to.

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Post by mrits » Mon, Dec 29, 2025, 10:01 PM UTC

Author should ask AI to write a small app with 100% code coverage that breaks in every path except what is covered in the tests.

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Post by observationist » Mon, Dec 29, 2025, 10:05 PM UTC

badgersnake wrote: post #5

I’m increasingly finding that the type of engineer that blogs is not they type of engineer anyone should listen to.

Badgersnake's corollary to Gell-Mann amnesia?

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Post by sgk284 » Mon, Dec 29, 2025, 10:06 PM UTC

badgersnake wrote: post #5

I’m increasingly finding that the type of engineer that blogs is not they type of engineer anyone should listen to.

Can you say more? I see a lot of teams struggling with getting AI to work for them. A lot of folks expect it to be a little more magical and "free" than it actually is. So this post is just me sharing what works well for us on a very seasoned eng team.

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Post by iamjs » Mon, Dec 29, 2025, 10:08 PM UTC

badgersnake wrote: post #5

I’m increasingly finding that the type of engineer that blogs is not they type of engineer anyone should listen to.

I find that this idea of restricting degrees of freedom is absolutely critical to being productive with agents at scale. Please enlighten us as to why you think this is nonsense

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Post by jennyholzer3 » Mon, Dec 29, 2025, 10:13 PM UTC

I don't know about all this AI stuff.

How are LLMs going to stay on top of new design concepts, new languages, really anything new?

Can LLMs be trained to operate "fluently" with regards to a genuinely new concept?

I think LLMs are good for writing certain types of "bad code", i.e. if you're learning a new language or trying to quickly create a prototype.

However to me it seems like a security risk to try to write "good code" with an LLM.