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Bozhidar Batsov (a.k.a. Bug)
@batsov.net

One of the many joys of using AI for programming is the creation of huge PRs on complex topics that the authors barely understand, but still suggest "because they work". Here's a great example from #OCaml github.com/ocaml/ocaml/... Kudos to OCaml's maintainers for handling this so gracefully.

github.comDWARF support for macOS and Linux by joelreymont · Pull Request #14369 · ocaml/ocamlDWARF v5 Debugging Support for OCaml Native Compiler This PR adds DWARF v5 debug information to the OCaml native compiler, allowing proper source-level debugging in GDB and LLDB. What's Impleme...
Radan
@radan.dev

AI coding has revealed just how many people in our industry don’t appreciate that for any long lived code the cost of initial implementaion is absolutely dwarfed by the cost of maintenance. So much that for long lived projects we can consider: cost of code = cost of maintenance.

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Radan
@radan.dev

It also manifests as "I can vibe code X in a weekend", usually written by people that never shipped a feature to users completely by themselves. :)