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Comment by Terr_ | original | Grieving the loss of details
[−]Terr_ · 2026-10-10 Sat 17:30 UTC · link
> It's still valuable to deeply understand parts of a program

Part of woe is that once you've reviewed, validated, and comprehended a piece... Later gets casually mangled by some other LLM-generated urgent change.

[−]kaffekaka · 2026-10-11 Sun 06:55 UTC · link
Yes to this. With the speed of ai code generation, the team has to decide not to rip things apart in every pr even though it is possible, since this destroys any hope of maintaining even a bit of understanding.

Some parties mean that making understanding irrelevant of the whole goal of ai driven development, though.