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alrtkh

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alrtkh··on Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap?
For people who like to tick boxes, which is essentially most of the above, AI is welcome. That includes managers.

It still has nothing to do with software engineering. All good code was written by humans. AI took it, plagiarizes it, launders it and repackages it in a bloated form.

Whenever I look deeply at an AI plagiarized mess, it looks like it is 90% there but in reality it is only 50%. Fixing the mess takes longer than writing it oneself.