alt Hacker News> The scary part is that codebases are getting layers of AI complexity, that it's going to cost $$$ to have the latest model decipher
Isn't this a bit like old Java or IDE-heavy languages like old Java/C#? If you tried to make Android apps back in the early days, you HAD to use an IDE, writing the ridicolous amount of boilerplate you had to write to display a "Hello Word" alert after clicking a button was soul destroying.
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layer8 • yesterday at 9:58 PM
The difference is that the complexity to achieve “Hello World” was the same for everyone, and more or less well-understood and documented. With AI, you get some different random spaghetti slop each time.
At least a human can get involved. Complex codebases written by humans can be understood.
If the barrier is too high, code is refactored.