| ▲ | bdangubic 17 hours ago |
| one year in, AI slop > Human-written slop |
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| ▲ | JohnMakin 17 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I am highly skeptical of this claim. |
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| ▲ | bdangubic 17 hours ago | parent [-] | | personal experience, not general claim. I am 30-years in the industry and have seen a lot of human-written code… | | |
| ▲ | martinald 16 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Agreed. I think a core problem is many developers (on HN) don't realise how "bad" so much human written code is. I've seen unbelievably complex logistics logic coded in... WordPress templates and plugins to take a random example. Actually virtually impossible to figure out - but AI can actually extract all the logic pretty well now. | | |
| ▲ | blibble 13 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > Agreed. I think a core problem is many developers (on HN) don't realise how "bad" so much human written code is. what do you think "AI" is trained on exactly? | | |
| ▲ | bdangubic 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | finally the right question! I would upvote you 1,000 times if I could! this is why they need a senior/seasoned developer behind them. for things that can simply be learned directly (e.g. from man/docs) it rocks, without guidance. for other things it needs guidance |
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| ▲ | paoaoaks 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | [dead] |
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| ▲ | bdangubic 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | there are many millions of people writing code… that’s way too many to get any good quality. you might get lucky and get involved with codebase which does not make you dizzy (or outright sick) but most of us are not that lucky | |
| ▲ | szundi 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | [dead] |
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| ▲ | jimbokun 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Does this mean the AI slop is higher quality or that there's more of it? |
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| ▲ | bdangubic 14 hours ago | parent [-] | | certainly not more of it now, we have decades and decades of human-written code if I am understanding the question correctly. all's I am saying is that "anti-AI" HN crowd literally glorifies human-written code every second of every day here, "AI slop this, AI code unmaintainable that..." I have been a contractor for many years now and usually brought on to fix shit and human-written code is in vast majority of cases much worse compared to AI generated code. the sample size of the latter is smaller but my general argument remains. I think people that write these "AI slop" comments should pick their favorite language/framework/... and then go to github and browse through codebases, written by humans (ignore commits before xxxxxx) and then see if they like what they see :) |
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