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@lain people seem to think that the way software was, up to before AI was a mainstream thing, much better than it actually was. I've had to deal with a myriad of weird ass bugs even from paid developers. And things with reported bugs that never got fixed.

@mischievoustomato yeah, it's not like the state of software was in some kind of perfect state, then AI came along and now every thing sucks. I know people still don't believe it, but LLMs generally write much better software than the average human dev, at least if you give them some basic guardrails.

I understood why people did not believe that only just 18 months ago. It was very much Not Good ™️
But now it is Pretty Good ™️ bordering on Excellent ™️

@lain i'd agree. It's either at the same level or better. It's even better if you design the stuff alongisde it and then let it go wild.

@tyler @mischievoustomato yeah, if you looked at it even a year ago, it was useful but not great, now you can indeed just tell it to write new software, make no mistakes, and it will generally do it.

I don't know. AI isn't automating the things I'd prefer to have automated. I'd rather scratch my ass and debug my spaghetti code than wash my dishes and do my laundry.

@Enword yeah they should invent machines for dishwashing and laundry

> "This AI rush gives me the Idea that in a couple of years we will be flooded with unmaintainable software and a lot of useless developers that wont be able to work"

so no changes

@lain imagine the quality of ERP systems once AI takes over this important sector. the majority of people having to work with ERP systems will groan and hate their lives I envision