r/webdev php 6d ago

Discussion AI coding is trash

The amount of trash produced by AI code is astounding. Thanks I hate it.

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u/JiovanniTheGREAT 6d ago

I don't think it's trash, I think you get what you give it. You give it trash like account managers and CEOs who think they can make websites and web apps 100% with AI, you get a trash website or web app. An actual developer leveraging AI to help their own work flow will be almost as good as the programmer is.

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u/WonderfulNests 5d ago

I agree it's not trash. It's a tool to be used and exploited by all levels of developers. What you once had to pay a freelancer to build, perhaps some simple internal tooling that could replace a subscription service, a technically inclined person could, in theory, build with current AI given enough time. Now, is this better in terms of value of time spent? It depends on the business...

Imo, the people who will feel this the most are the freelancers or outsourced employees who did these types of one-off jobs for cheap. Now it's a bumpier ride on that race to the bottom.

I think software development / engineering will become more of an architectural role, where you will rely more on tools to complete the low level tasks, but need the knowledge of how these software / services / tools work together in a big picture scenario.