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NoCopilot · 1 Oct 2024

They started churning out code that's damn near unreadable at a furious pace

bunderbunder on Hacker News

productivity of the people who are responsible for supporting and maintaining their code down toward zero

In the thread “Sorry, GenAI is NOT going to 10x computer programming”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Star developers produced unreadable code that broke maintenance workflows.

… We gave them Copilot and it only compounded the problem. They started churning out code that's damn near unreadable at a furious pace. And that pushed the productivity of the people who are responsible for supporting and maintaining their code down toward zero. …