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Posted by RyeCombinator 14 hours ago

Lines of code got a better publicist(curlewis.co.nz)
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RedMagicBox 14 hours ago|
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enejg 12 hours ago||
Bragging about an AI agent generating a million lines of code is exactly like bragging about an automated factory generating a million tons of airplane weight. It completely misses the point of engineering. The bottleneck in software development hasn't been "typing speed" for a very long time; it's domain understanding, system design, and long-term maintenance.

Every line of code an LLM instantly spits out is a line a human engineer will eventually have to read, understand, debug, and migrate when the underlying business logic changes. The "better publicist" might be successfully selling these generation metrics to executives, but it's the actual engineering teams who are going to be paying the maintenance tax on all this auto-generated sprawl for the next decade.

lawwantsin17 10 hours ago|
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