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Good Culture is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI (newsletter.eng-leadership.com)

submitted 5 days ago by codeinabox@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] greasewizard@slrpnk.net 23 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Its hilarious to me that before AI, I would suggest we refactor our code base to make it more readable and easier to understand and would get all the excuses. "Oh we don't have the time". " we could introduce bugs". "We would need to test that"

Now when I mention to make the code easier for an LLM to understand, they're chomping at the bit for it.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah... when the only documentation is CLAUDE.md...

Still you can see why right? Improving docs/understandability for AI is good for them - they get more capable AI. Improving it for humans only helps other people, which is less of a priority.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 8 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Before AI, refactoring was expensive, high risk, unclear payoff.

With AI, it’s cheap, higher risk, obvious payoff.

[–] RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The obvious payoff being that engineers with an actual work ethic get to fix the mess.

[–] Reality@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't care about work ethic, I want clean and tested code, that performs well and is easy to extend and replace

[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 2 points 3 days ago

You get none of the above without someone willing to do the work.

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I also got to refractor a major headache away, it was finally cheap enough to do all in one go instead of putting in a new pattern and incrementally change. The "Do one, do one, now repeat" prompt pattern works really well for these.

[–] staircase@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

cheap at first