Hacker News·3 min read·medium
Write code like a human will maintain it
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The author warns that relying on LLMs to generate repetitive code without refactoring creates a feedback loop of technical debt. Because LLMs learn from existing codebase patterns, merging sloppy, AI-generated code forces the model to replicate those bad practices in future tasks.
One of the best things about LLMs is that they'll write code for you, all day long. Who cares about DRY? You don't have to be the one updating the same long conditional in four different files - the AI will just do it for you! Right?
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