Projects using AI are the best documented and tested projects I worked on.

They are well documented because you need context for the LLM to be performant. And they are well tested because the cost of producing test got lower since they can be half generated, while the benefit of having tests got higher, since they are guard rails for the machine.

People constantly say code quality is going to plummet because of those tools, but I think the exact opposite is going to happen.

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oblio 3 days ago | parent [-]

I find it funny that we had to invent tools that will replace, say, 20%+ of developers out there to finally have developers to write docs :-))

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baq 3 days ago | parent [-]

The difference today is the docs are being read. In the before times, unless you were building a foundational library, docs would get updated when a presentation was needed to announce a great success, or maybe not even then. Nowadays if you want coding agents to be efficient, doc quality is paramount.

IOW there’s very clear ROI on docs today, it wasn’t so earlier.

	▲	oblio 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I guess also the opposite is true, if a developer wants job security, not writing docs (and writing obfuscated code) is still the way to go :-p