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   Vern McCandlish (malanalysis@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 18:36:02 JST Vern McCandlish

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   • Stephen Farrugia

   @fasterandworse I am used to hearing "That code is by the person that retired two years ago, nobody here now really understands it"

   I guess now I may have to get used to "that code is from $AIEngine that was refreshed last week, so it doesn't even understand the code now and no one here ever understood it in the first place."

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     Stephen Farrugia (fasterandworse@hci.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 18:36:03 JST Stephen Farrugia

     the thing about all the "copilot increased our engineer productivity by a million%" pieces is the worst code doesn't break when you push to prod. It breaks a year later on a sunday at 2am and the only reason it can be fixed is because the person who caused it was hoping this wouldn't happen

     Børge repeated this.