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minus-squaredeegeese@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·6 days agoBefore AI, refactoring was expensive, high risk, unclear payoff. With AI, it’s cheap, higher risk, obvious payoff.
minus-squareRichardDegenne@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 days agoThe obvious payoff being that engineers with an actual work ethic get to fix the mess.
minus-squareReality@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 days agoI don’t care about work ethic, I want clean and tested code, that performs well and is easy to extend and replace
minus-squareTehPers@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days agoYou get none of the above without someone willing to do the work.
minus-squareCaveman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 days agoI also got to refractor a major headache away, it was finally cheap enough to do all in one go instead of putting in a new pattern and incrementally change. The “Do one, do one, now repeat” prompt pattern works really well for these.
Before AI, refactoring was expensive, high risk, unclear payoff.
With AI, it’s cheap, higher risk, obvious payoff.
The obvious payoff being that engineers with an actual work ethic get to fix the mess.
I don’t care about work ethic, I want clean and tested code, that performs well and is easy to extend and replace
You get none of the above without someone willing to do the work.
I also got to refractor a major headache away, it was finally cheap enough to do all in one go instead of putting in a new pattern and incrementally change. The “Do one, do one, now repeat” prompt pattern works really well for these.
cheap at first