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One think I think is strange about the m programming world we live in now is the mythologization of pre llm code. As if people weren’t copying code from stack overflow, auto completing their way through APIs using intellisense, intellicode, tab nine, or checking in code there didn’t properly test or understand

That shit used to be frowned upon, now it's celebrated!

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You absolutely can deny long term productivity gains. Pre AI it took 100 engineers 5 years to get into a legacy code situation. Once you’re in a legacy code situation it’s very hard to add new features and your code is full of bugs. Fortunately most old companies with legacy code are making loads of money so they can pay the increased development costs to add features to their legacy code. Now with AI five engineers…

Why five? What do the other four do?

They go to meetings.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should really look at studies on how happy employees are much more productive than unhappy ones. And the trend continues way above the bare minimum of not being miserable.

not sure why you've equated the team's happiness is less important than the software to make the team unhappy . that's an incredibly binary perspective. there's usually more than two priorities. and i agree with you that a team's wellbeing is important. it should be up there in priorities. i'm just pointing out that a team that accepts being happy, focussing on the software as more important than their own happiness…

I agree it's not a binary thing, it's just that, by how the parent comment is worded, looks like for them anything above the line of misery is OK. But maybe my interpretation is wrong.

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Coding by AI is not Rewarding. AI is threating the world as natural habitat, the Job market, and the ability of people to think over things. No technology is worth the great waste of energy and water. Whats wrong with accepting our limits as humans? AI is the next tech held by the Rich to rule over the pour.

Re: Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?

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In my startup, I am currently in consideration for doing this exact thing. The interesting part is it's not really the AI that's causing the issue. It's the ease of my developer to make a mess, either with messy code or feature bloat. After figuring out the exact product we need with some very quick development cycles with AI, we now have some problems that I can't keep under control because of AI. So, currently unde…

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