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> I think AI slop code is going to be a much bigger problem than people anticipate. I'm seeing the same thing. Of course, it's always possible that AI capabili
by dimgl 1mo ago
> I think AI slop code is going to be a much bigger problem than people anticipate.
I'm seeing the same thing. Of course, it's always possible that AI capabilities grow significantly from here and this worry is moot (and there will be other things to worry about, like whether I'll have a job). But seriously, after a while AI generated codebases really fall apart.
It's a bit of cope from me that this problem won't be solved in the future, but I'm also really disappointed with how many people really do not care about writing high-quality software that is easy to understand, performant, and resilient to bugs. Like, why did you decide to work on software in the first place?
I think we're going to see some pretty careless mistakes in the future that will result in a lot of pain...
- socketcluster 1mo agoI'm feeling quite confident that AI won't be able to produce quality code in the foreseeable future. Because the bottleneck is not technology, it's people and incentives. Firstly, people don't agree on what good code is (developers who get paid by the hour tend to favor complexity so they think good code is complex code), secondly, AI companies have an incentive to produce more tokens; this works against good architecture since good architecture would cost fewer tokens to maintain. Thirdly, many decision makers tend to conflate complexity with intelligence, hence they are more likely to prefer complex solutions over optimal ones.