The Eternal Sloptember
3 hours ago
- #Future of Programming
- #AI Criticism
- #Software Development
- AI agents in software development are criticized as a costly mistake, as they only mimic programming statistically rather than truly understanding it.
- Despite initial doubts and efforts to use AI for programming tasks, the output remains broken in subtle ways, requiring constant correction.
- AI is useful for quick prototypes and as a search tool but falls short of being a reliable software engineer, especially in requiring human oversight.
- High-performing individuals can error-correct and recognize low-quality AI output, but large organizations may suffer from slower feedback loops and increased sloppy code production.
- AI-generated artifacts differ from human-created ones in process, leading to broken results that old quality proxies like syntax cannot detect.