2026-09-23 17:39 UTC
It's like everyone who came on board to AI because "they can write code now!" thinks the primary argument the rest of us have is "no it can't"
So I'll be the one to say it: yes AI can write code. I believe you. They can write code. It compiles. It even passes the tests that the AI also wrote.
Unfortunately the code they write is shit. It's automated technical debt with built in landmines. You think people coding in C causes issues? Wait'll you see what LLM code produced on massive scale does
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@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-09-23 17:40
Writing code that compiles and nominally functions at first glance is the very first hurdle, literally the easiest thing that exists in software development. And we're supposed to take all human intervention out of the equation based on that alone? Are you fucking mad?
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@leberschnitzel@existiert.ch 2026-09-24 20:50
@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place I'm going to steal an reply from a friend to this https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/18/surprise/#wowsignal "But in order to _be_ surprised, you also have to understand what's "normal". If you don't know chemistry, you might be surprised when the indicator solution turns blue as you add baking soda. And, at some point in the past, someone was indeed surprised by this. [...]" 1/2