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		cdchn on Oct 31, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company... 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.

disgruntledphd2 on Oct 31, 2024 | [–]

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.

protomolecule on Oct 31, 2024 | [–]

Legacy code in a dynamically typed language is never good.

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