> Agreed. I think a core problem is many developers (on HN) don't realise how "bad" so much human written code is.
what do you think "AI" is trained on exactly?
finally the right question! I would upvote you 1,000 times if I could!
this is why they need a senior/seasoned developer behind them. for things that can simply be learned directly (e.g. from man/docs) it rocks, without guidance. for other things it needs guidance
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I've seen unbelievably complex logistics logic coded in... WordPress templates and plugins to take a random example. Actually virtually impossible to figure out - but AI can actually extract all the logic pretty well now.