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sublinear • yesterday at 8:08 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Wrong.

If the software makes money because it's expected to work reliably, every edge case matters. Web games aren't exempt from engineering challenges. In fact, the more trivial the problem seems on the surface, the more likely it is to have edge cases.

Bugs are always prioritized based on how big of a deal it is for the customer. They don't like to wait and they rarely give second chances.

AI doesn't fit into any dev workflow except greenfield or analysis. Everything else needs a lot of close human attention and human discussion. AI doesn't read minds.


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AIorNot • yesterday at 9:33 PM

No that is not a correct read -it might be based on this past few months or so state of the art, while instead that state of the art is moving forward every month- and at the rate these ai coding systems are improving and our harnesses for managing them- bug handling and brownfield codebases are becoming increasingly accessible to AI coding

Ie you are making the mistake of assuming the tech is static when it most assuredly is not