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0 pointscdchn1y ago0 comments

Thankfully it seems like AI is best at automating the most tedious and arguably most useless endeavor in software engineering- rewriting perfectly good code in whatever the language du jour is.

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disgruntledphd21y ago

Again, what AI is good at shows the revealed preferences of the training data, so it does make sense that it would excel at pointless rewrites.

protomolecule1y ago

Legacy code in a dynamically typed language is never good.

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