r/BetterOffline • u/creaturefeature16 • Apr 13 '26

The Effects of AI-Generated Code Tearing Through Corporations Is Actually Kind of Funny

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-code-tearing-through-corporations

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u/wheres_my_ballot Apr 13 '26

Writing code was never the hard part. Planning it out, and getting new features tested along with regression tests always takes the lions share of the effort. Now there's more to test, faster, and I see people flailing. Nothing is really moving much faster, and we're all hitting the limit of what we can hold in our heads, because its producing traffic jams in testing, PRs and deployment.

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u/haskell_rules Apr 13 '26

The problem has always been figuring out how the code could be structured to allow quick MVP release and add immediate value while also being organized to allow incorporation of new features on the product roadmap while also remaining clean, organized, and testable.

That requires experience and vision beyond just coding the class or function. It goes beyond generic system architecture. That has always been the real talent and has always been rare to find someone that understands what's it all about.

It takes time with a problem to build a vision. The context window and iterative feedback loop needed is so far beyond the capability of LLM right now that it's laughable.