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stuaxo | on: AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
It's also introducing a new kind of technical debt much faster.
JsonDemWitOster | parent | next
I think I doubled the amount of tempermanent fixes I pushed in my whole career just in the past two weeks.
fusslo | parent | next
we're seeing easier PR approvals when AI is involved. Since changing the code in the future is a lot easier.

Instead of a highly structured engineering process it's more like a gardening process of figuring out what works, what doesn't, what the Business actually wants vs what their requirements were

So more debt because there's more code but it's easier and simpler to change that debt. And in 3 years the product is EOL so shrugs

jryle70 | parent
Which can also then be fixed faster?
rglover | root | parent
Not necessarily and most likely not. I think a lot of people's definition of "fixed" is "stop hiccuping in the previous way so that my butt is covered" and not "yes, it actually works and was given the proper time and testing to ensure that remains true."

Developers would do well to remove the word fast from their vocabulary. It has done tremendous damage to human systems (and the mental well-being of the people dependent on those systems). The whole reason the "technical debt" exists is because there's an addiction to speed. The sad part is that when you poke at that with most people, they couldn't give you a clear reason as to why they need to move fast; just that they have a sense that it's "how everyone does it."

luckydata | root | parent
how's the weather up in that ivory tower of yours?
rglover | root | parent
Sunny but remarkably devoid of tusks.