semisol
· 2d
And it doesn’t make anything better.
From my experience, how much a project or product has embraced AI-assisted development is directly correlated with how much worse it got.
Everyone is using AI ...
I agree that AI slop is worse than human-written code. Not necessarily in terms of quality - it might actually be better in that regard - but in terms of structure.
As soon as you unleash AI on your codebase, you start noticing how it becomes more "fractal", losing the clean, "crystalline" structure it had before AI touched it.
And honestly, maybe it's just me, but AI-generated code is hard to work with, and I don't particularly want to. It makes me want to have another LLM fix the problems created by the first one.
Still, I think that if you find the right balance, AI can be a pretty good tool.