How is that different compared to a human dev that would miss bugs?

duskdozer 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The people using these programs are generating massive amounts of code, and you won't convince me they're actually carefully understanding most of it, if they even read it all. And it bypasses the first verification step where you are actively typing in the code that will be run.

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Grimblewald 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The ability to plan long term and anticipate flow on errors.

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onion2k 2 hours ago | parent [-]

You chosen AI agent can and will plan as far ahead as you tell it to plan. If you tell it to do things in iteration 1 that might block it in iteration 3 then you should have told it more about where you want to go back in iteration 1.

	▲	Grimblewald an hour ago \| parent [-]
		At some point I have to describe what I need with such a level of detail and precision, that if I had chosen to wrote it in my language of interest I'd have had the code I wanted long before i finish writing all the boundry conditions, safe guards, long term pitfalls etc. Thats if the system even respects all of those things, it might just lose track of some instruction at some point or make some bs placeholder and now we're back to bug hunting, only i'm now wading through code that is best described as slop.

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nomercy400 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes, this is simply 'technical debt'.

They should try to fix technical debt before going to the next round. Of course Claude can probably also do this.

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kleiba 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I didn't downvote you, but I've noticed recently a trend on HN that just asking a normal question (possibly to start a discussion) gets downvoted for no apparent reason and without any explanation. Not good etiquette, in my opinion.

	▲	threethirtytwo 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think it's all the angry people who were wrong about AI. Every week they come on HN and say AI is utter crap and useless, and every week AI becomes more and more part of the developer work flow. I would be pissed off too if I was a hypocrite who was so sure AI was total garbage and was now at the same time needing to use claude on a daily basis. A lot of developers are going through an identity crisis where their skills are becoming more and more useless and they need to attack comments like the above in a desperate but futile attempt to make themselves matter.