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10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents (arstechnica.com)

submitted 15 hours ago by codeinabox@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] pageflight@piefed.social 19 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Since 1990, I’ve programmed in BASIC, C, Visual Basic, PHP, ASP, Perl, Python, Ruby, MUSHcode, and some others. I am not an expert in any of these languages—I learned just enough to get the job done. I have developed my own hobby games over the years using BASIC, Torque Game Engine, and Godot,

I think this is where AI unquestionably shines: switching languages/projects frequently, on personal projects.

so I have some idea of what makes a good architecture for a modular program that can be expanded over time.

But I actually draw the opposite conclusion. The architecture and maintainability needs are where AI is pretty poor, and they're vastly different and more important in a 100-1000 person 10 year production system.

[–] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Agreed. As an ex-technical lead and co-architect i also agree that what ai does is often very poor architectural design and i wouldnt want it to touch that, ever.