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   Ana Hevesi (anthrocypher@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 05-May-2024 20:37:53 JST Ana Hevesi

   In an age where gen AI makes it much cheaper to produce code, the ability to read, comprehend, and review code becomes that much more crucial.

   Until and unless businesses and executives recognize this, they won’t actually be able to realize the economic upside of AI because they’ll be too busy creating so many fires which need putting out.
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     mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-May-2024 20:37:48 JST mhoye

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     @anthrocypher I've got this in an upcoming publication:

     "Every line of code written today represents a testing, complexity, maintenance and refactoring burden your team will bear tomorrow, and the reality is that none of our customers want code. Our customers want _utility and functionality;_ code is a liability we accept so we can deliver that functionality. GenAI or not, nobody wants or needs an arbitrary quantity of code for its own sake."

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     Isaac Lyman (isaaclyman@toot.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 05-May-2024 20:37:48 JST Isaac Lyman

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     • mhoye

     @mhoye @anthrocypher Code has no inherent value. Text has no inherent value. Digital paintings have no inherent value. Maybe some of us thought they did, once. An avalanche of form without substance is one hell of a way to correct us.

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     Ana Hevesi (anthrocypher@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 05-May-2024 20:37:49 JST Ana Hevesi

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     So, why are so many executives and investors overlooking this very basic reality that code produced is code which must be maintained, and that an acceleration of code produced thanks to gen AI means ~more risk~, not just more $$$?

     I have friends who are Principal Engineers asking themselves this very question right now.

     And in response, I point us to the classic Upton Sinclair quote:
     “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

     pettter and Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: repeated this.
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     Ana Hevesi (anthrocypher@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 05-May-2024 20:37:51 JST Ana Hevesi

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     • Cat Hicks
     • Carol Lee
     • Kristen Foster-Marks

     My assertion that grappling with the increasing importance of code review is literally a business imperative came to me while reading @grimalkina @KFosterMarks and @CSLee’s excellent work on AI skill threat:

     https://www.pluralsight.com/resource-center/guides/new-developer-research-paper

     Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: repeated this.
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     Ana Hevesi (anthrocypher@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 05-May-2024 20:37:52 JST Ana Hevesi

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     Btw, the insight that reviewing code will become more important than producing code was introduced to me via this paper:

     “Taking Flight with Copilot: Early insights and opportunities of AI-powered pair-programming tools”

     https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3582083