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Quothling 6 hours ago

To be fair to AI, it's not like Clean Code and it's OOP cult weren't already causing L1-3 cache misses by every abstraction and how they spread their functions out over multiple files. I'm not sure AI can really make it worse than that, and it's been a golden standard in a lot of places for 25 years. For the most part it doesn't matter, in most software it'll cost you a little extra on compute but rarely noticible. If you're writing software for something important though, like one of those astractions you talk about, then it's going to travel through everything. Making it even more important to actually know what you're building upon.

Still, I'm not convinced AI is necessarily worse at reading the documentation and using the abstractions correctly than the programmers using the AI. If you don't know what you're doing, then does it matter if you utilise an AI instead of google programming?