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Wow, I feel this deeply. I work with bad software. It is bad because people built it using tools that were designed to "make coding easier". I feel a cold ch
by telephone3 14d ago
Wow, I feel this deeply. I work with bad software. It is bad because people built it using tools that were designed to "make coding easier". I feel a cold chill imagining the level of institutional cruft that could be allowed to build up with unrestrained ai coding.
With that said - the process of fixing those old mistakes is greatly aided by llms... but you still need to understand what you are fixing, and understanding why giant blocks of code are copy-pasted everywhere, or why convoluted hacks evolved over time as reactions to bizarre underlying untreated bugs is, imo, ultimately a human/organizational/processes problem.
Anyway I think you are bang on.
- alasano 14d agoThere's a minimum threshold of knowing what you don't know that's needed I think. Below that the AI will need to get good enough to compensate for people's lack of knowledge. But that will cost money so not sure how it's going to be balanced. I have friends codebases where I had them just run a stupid simple prompt like "spawn subagents to find the top 5 worst issues in this codebase". Wide open APIs allowing anyone to modify the database and charge customers among other things. The mere awareness of needing to secure things is lacking from most vibe coders.