Here's a question we see, especially from AI skeptics: if AI coding is so great, shouldn't we be seeing more new, good software by now?
Here are some answ...
The problem with posts like this is they are just claims with no evidence.
I don’t like to take sides on what is essentially reality. AI exists and people use it. For them, it is useful. That’s not really a debate.
If the benefits outweigh the negatives on the grand scheme of things, becomes a philosophical question.
On the specific case of software being produced here and now, it is worth noticing that the problems people attribute to AI, were already manifesting themselves in industrial scale before the advent of AI coding tools.
Reinventing the wheel everywhere, software riddled with bugs every other click, UIs and workflows driven by trends and how slick they look rather than how effective they are at a specific task. Corporate Godzilla sized distributed systems that often could be called down to a $100 server. Gigabyte size binaries that pack the same functionality than a 200kB program written in the 1990s.
On the face of all this, we blame AI… I don’t buy it.
The problem with posts like this is they are just claims with no evidence.
I don’t like to take sides on what is essentially reality. AI exists and people use it. For them, it is useful. That’s not really a debate. If the benefits outweigh the negatives on the grand scheme of things, becomes a philosophical question.
On the specific case of software being produced here and now, it is worth noticing that the problems people attribute to AI, were already manifesting themselves in industrial scale before the advent of AI coding tools.
Reinventing the wheel everywhere, software riddled with bugs every other click, UIs and workflows driven by trends and how slick they look rather than how effective they are at a specific task. Corporate Godzilla sized distributed systems that often could be called down to a $100 server. Gigabyte size binaries that pack the same functionality than a 200kB program written in the 1990s.
On the face of all this, we blame AI… I don’t buy it.
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