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That's certainly a more positive way to look at this. Working software has always relied on having people who grok the code, and this happens by spending a lot of time thinking about the code while writing it. And it's undocumented, because the nature of it is something you cannot really document.

If AI is writing all the code, how do we keep the quality good? It's so obvious with the current GenAI tools that they're getting great at producing code, but they don't really understand the code.

We don't really know how this story unfolds, so it's good to keep a positive mindset.



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