alt Hacker NewsFWIW, our codebase is growing, and the size of each change is also growing, but it's because AI is making us fix all the bugs we'd previously check in because our code long ago surpassed what even our best developers can reason about.
The funny thing is that the AI adopters are in the middle of the bell curve. Our worst devs continue to perform worse than AI yet refuse to use it and our best devs continue to insist AI sucks despite it finding issues in their code and the reviews and designs they've approved.
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Too many comments about AI read like inadvertent admissions of incompetence or dysfunctional projects.
Couple of WTFs that come to mind:
* How many bugs did one have per commit, that commits have to noticeably grow in order to not have those bugs in the first place?
* How does one even do software engineering if the (best) developers can’t reason about the code?
Shouldn’t you be, in general, separating out new functionality from old fixes?
Shouldn’t those “fixing bugs we gained in the past” be their own MR that can be read, reasoned about and have evaluated test coverage?