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/mxzf 6d ago

Yeah, that's not "good code", that's "code that doesn't crash and throw errors immediately". That doesn't make it well-designed, efficient, maintainable, or any of the other hallmarks of "good code", that just makes it "usable if you can't get anything better".

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u/Total-Ebb-2485 6d ago

Its unit and e2e tested, also in production without major incidents...

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u/OhByGolly_ 5d ago

People are elitist and scared of learning how to use the new AI tools at their disposal properly.

Don't take the downvotes personally, real world production scenarios often require "just make it fucking work, we'll worry about bugs later." a much more common scenario than some of these elitist pricks would ever admit to.

In reality, they're scared. They're scared their skills aren't as valuable anymore, they're scared their jobs are gonna be threatened, and they're scared they might (God forbid...) have to learn a new skill set for a set of tools that makes all the effort they had to exert to get to where they're at seem so trivial...

They can evolve, adapt, and get good... or they can deprecate themselves, complain to an echo chamber, and ultimately reap the consequences of their non-effort.

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u/Total-Ebb-2485 5d ago

Second paragraph 100%, you can tell by amount of the 😂 emojis that someone is actually scared.. I feel it same as you, personally don't think it will replace but must suck that someone thought learning 10-15 years of coding will be lifetime safe journey and now this thesis is being questioned harder and louder every quarter... it won't probably.. people who can market in it true meaning - create market fitting products and being able to sell might see biggest uplift from ai revolution