More code means more support and more maintenance. If your team is already overloaded or if it's going to be reduced because of AI, things are going to get tough.

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lxgr 2 days ago | parent [-]

My bigger concern is actually that, if a company isn't careful, the bloat (complexity, amount of code, other artifacts etc.) will just balloon and largely cancel out any gains.

Feedback is often only considered once something is already on fire (financially, functionally, or literally).

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nkrisc 2 days ago | parent [-]

That’s the game plan for the AI companies: once companies have massive codebases of critical AI generated code and a skeleton crew of prompt engineers they’re going to be locked in to the AI product to develop anything new.

They’re not even selling shovels, they’re selling subscriptions for shovels.

	▲	lxgr 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I don't think there needs to be any intentional evil scheme for this dynamic to be worth considering and mitigating. For example, there's also no cabal behind memory prices dropping (ignoring the development of the past months, of course), which in turn enabled web and game developers to use more memory and make their software non-viable on older devices.