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Andy Newton

I had an interesting conversation during the IETF hackathon with people getting heavily into coding with AI. To get AI to work for serious projects, they need to write down a lot of assumptions and other information, the observation being that they are now documenting things they should have written down for their junior engineers but didn't... but now that the AI needs this information, they are doing it.

Which, from an economic standpoint, is totally backwards assuming that a junior engineer costs a lot more than an AI.
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partim@social.tchncs.de

Martin Hoffmann

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@andy But also, a good implementation begins with exploring the solution space to discover constraints and corner cases. Dreaming up a green field design and then have it implemented it as is without changes based on feedback and experience is bound to result in bad software, no matter who or what does the implementation.

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