AI has a multiplying effect on existing technical skills

Post by iwiwk » Fri, May 22, 2026, 3:42 PM UTC

njovin wrote: post #103

gbear0 wrote: post #87

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Why was it a maintenance dead end? It sounds like you were able to iteratively work on it in its current state, but are you going to be the one maintaining the code? I keep asking myself the same questions, and the conclusion I keep coming to is the clean modeled structure we want to see is for humans to maintain and extend, but the AI doesn't need this. There's definitely an efficiency angle here where it's faster f…

Many of us recognize that the days of nearly-free tokens is quickly drawing to a close, and at some point humans may very well have to dig their keyboards out of cold storage and return once again to the code mines.

Post by techblueberry » Fri, May 22, 2026, 3:52 PM UTC

Post by therouwboat » Fri, May 22, 2026, 3:56 PM UTC

giancarlostoro wrote: post #53

akersten wrote: post #23

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> The code it generated was awful. The kind of garbage that people who don’t know any better would ship: it looked right and it worked. But it was instantly a maintenance dead end. In the Tailwind thread the other day I was explicitly told that the intended experience of many frameworks is "write-only code" so maybe this is just the way of the future that we have to learn to embrace. Don't worry how it's all hooked u…

Easy, have Claude review the code, tell it to be critical and that it needs to be easier to understand, follow Clean Code, SOLID principles and best practices. Lie to it, say you got this from a Junior developer, or "review it as if you were a Staff Level Engineer reviewing Junior code" the models can write better code, just nobody tells them to.

Post by ar_lan » Fri, May 22, 2026, 3:59 PM UTC

giancarlostoro wrote: post #53

akersten wrote: post #23

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> The code it generated was awful. The kind of garbage that people who don’t know any better would ship: it looked right and it worked. But it was instantly a maintenance dead end. In the Tailwind thread the other day I was explicitly told that the intended experience of many frameworks is "write-only code" so maybe this is just the way of the future that we have to learn to embrace. Don't worry how it's all hooked u…

Easy, have Claude review the code, tell it to be critical and that it needs to be easier to understand, follow Clean Code, SOLID principles and best practices. Lie to it, say you got this from a Junior developer, or "review it as if you were a Staff Level Engineer reviewing Junior code" the models can write better code, just nobody tells them to.

Post by dawnerd » Fri, May 22, 2026, 4:04 PM UTC

iwiwk wrote: post #131

njovin wrote: post #103

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Many of us recognize that the days of nearly-free tokens is quickly drawing to a close, and at some point humans may very well have to dig their keyboards out of cold storage and return once again to the code mines.

OAI and Anthropic need to generate cash flows from operations - once they go public that’s it. Any future funding for reinvestment has to come from internal funds beyond existing raising + IPO. So yeah, it’s imminent. Let’s see how demand shifts in response in the future.