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ngseverstoday at 2:05 AM2 repliesview on HN

Even if agents can learn to navigate all the stubs and WET crap they leave behind do we really want a code base that no human can follow what's actually going on?


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softwaredougtoday at 2:12 AM

Even if the agent does everything, English is an imprecise description of what the code does.

So I personally at a minimum will want to talk “in code” about what code does.

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frollogastontoday at 4:53 AM

If anything I've seen them go too far with DRY. Like two small functions have logic that you could separate into a shared helper, but no human programmer would do that because it's an unclean abstraction and breaks next time you want to alter either one at all.