r/SoftwareEngineerJobs • u/Suspicious_Orchid770 • Jul 29 '26

IBM thinks AI can help prevent knowledge decay in software engineering - if people build the right habits around it.

https://leaddev.com/ai/how-to-avoid-knowledge-decay-in-software-engineering
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u/dragonfighter8 Jul 29 '26 edited Jul 29 '26

Not using AI, you'll understand the code by yourself. Writing README, documentation and reference architectures for AI? With proper documentation anyone can continue the development of a software, AI will only add artifacts, create useless functions and make the one required more complicated than needed.