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MixedChatGPT · 24 Jun 2025

but then asked AI to refactor it in a way I want and it is usually really good at it

notyouraibot on Hacker News

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In the thread “GitHub CEO: manual coding remains key despite AI boom”

Helped: Refactoring glue code into desired structure

Got in the way: Generating large, unstructured single-file agents

… These days almost all the code I see is glue code, AI has done severe damage by enabling engineers who do not understand basic structures and fundamentals write 'code that just works'. At the same time, I don't blame just the AI, cause several times I have written code myself which is gluecode, but then asked AI to refactor it in a way I want and it is usually really good at it.