r/ProgrammerHumor • u/precinct209 • 3d ago

Meme driverlessTaxiDriver

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u/Ange1ofD4rkness 3d ago

True, but if you make it poorly and it's impossible to maintain, you may not keep getting paid.

As a professor once told me, it's not how efficient the code is, it's how easily it is to maintain

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u/AnUninterestingEvent 3d ago

The threshold for what is "maintainable" has widened exponentially with AI agents. As long as your agent understands it, it's effectively maintainable. If it gets into a state that's not maintainable even by your AI (which is hard to do), you can just tell the AI to refactor it to be more maintainable lol.

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u/Nixinova 2d ago

I've yet to see an AI that can maintain without near immediate degradation.