Mastodawn

Thom, exceedingly pure Mar 12

If you hired a translator and they sent you a Google Translate translation, they would be a bad translator.

If you hired an artist and they sent you an image generated by Gemini, they would be a bad artist.

If you hired a programmer and they sent you a slopcoded website, they would be a...?

Yeah.

What is it with programmers and their desire for mediocrity?

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mossman

@thomholwerda during a recent new project kick off, the client from a very large multinational engineering concern, who is in charge of upgrading a complex package of in-house tools, waxed lyrical about how great AI was for refactoring ancient code into modern programming languages and then validating the results against the old system output. I hope my face didn't betray the instant disappointment I felt. Trying to keep an open mind on this one...