The rapid adoption of AI coding tools has let workers generate massive volumes of code, leaving companies scrambling to review and secure the AI-generated code
New York Times
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Discussion
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@mikeisaac
Rat King
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après Claude, le déluge me and @eringriffith on the code explosion that AI tools brought to the programming world, ramped up exponentially in just the past six months — for better and for worse https://www.nytimes.com/...
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@nickwingfield
Nick Wingfield
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The most profound sign of this code glut may be Apple's App Store, which is now seeing astonishing growth in new apps for the first time in years, per this @aatilley story. https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
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@mikeisaac
Rat King
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what we wanted to get across with this was how many folks we spoke to who were genuinely amazed at how much better A.I. coding tools are now, but also with that comes a host of issues technical debt, domain knowledge withering, and how companies actually *work* being concerns
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@durumcrustulum.com
@durumcrustulum.com
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'The software development factory kind of broke," he said. “ We're trying to rearrange the parts in some sense. ” [embedded post]
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@glinden
Greg Linden
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Writing code is easy. Writing useful code that is reliable and easy to maintain is hard. This is why lines of code is well known to be an absolutely awful metric for productivity and business impact. [embedded post]