| ▲ | afavour 7 hours ago |
| No, AI is truly useful in software engineering. I was a skeptic until I started using it. No, it isn’t going to solve every problem out there, but it’s a force multiplier. |
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| ▲ | rf15 an hour ago | parent [-] |
| You pay understanding for speed. How much this trade is acceptable is up to you and the task you have in front of you. I cannot recommend it as a general solution. |
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| ▲ | elktown an hour ago | parent [-] | | This field doesn’t do well on long-term thinking. Even if all this turns out to be a net loss, it will be reinterpreted as a win and just an opportunity for even more of the same solution. There are numerous examples of this, e.g. the OOP craze. Tech is a stock market of ideas and HN is a trading floor. The “line goes up” logic applies - not merit. | | |
| ▲ | pjc50 40 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Describing OOP as a "craze" is incredibly out of touch. It's been a thing for, what, three decades? | | |
| ▲ | the-smug-one 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | There certainly was an OOP craze, that's not out of touch to talk about. | |
| ▲ | elktown 14 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | I'm sure I'm not the first person you've seen hinting at OOP (and all that came with it) having been hyped up beyond its merits. |
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