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usonian

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8. Software works in a way to confound the brightest of us and heck, everyone.

Reply to 2naSalit (Reply #6)

Sun Aug 25, 2024, 10:26 AM

Aug 2024

When AI writes all the software, it will get even more faulty, confusing, bizarre, and impossible to debug.

Proof:
https://medium.com/@thetateman/im-tired-of-fixing-customers-ai-generated-code-94816bde4ceb

I’m Tired of Fixing Customers’ AI Generated Code

When customers offload software engineering to AI because they don’t have the capability themselves, they still need to find a developer to fix the bugs that AI creates. I don’t want to be that developer!

When all the developers have moved on to more promising work, like concert pianist, there will be nobody left to debug faulty code.