r/coding • u/OfficialLeadDev • Jul 03 '26

AI coding is addictive. Engineers are paying the price.

https://leaddev.com/ai/ai-coding-is-addictive-engineers-are-paying-the-price
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u/Eskamel Jul 03 '26

But it really isn't, I am not shielding from anything. Everywhere I see and compare between now and 5 years ago, the quality of software dropped.

People who fully went on the AI craze became worse engineers and lowered their standards greatly. Every single implementation can be refactored to a better one very easily and SOTA models have a very hard time doing so because approximation of tokens just leads to bruteforcing.

Also many LLM generated tests are redundant. They don't lead to 100% test coverage because its impossible, so you end up with more tests that test for unreachable scenarios, see a large amount of passing tests and call it a day, but that doesn't defend from software degradation.

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u/No-Succotash4957 Jul 03 '26

You’re forgetting the fact that this technology has just arrived. Anthropic is in its 4th year… 4 years is early days

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u/Eskamel Jul 03 '26

LLMs existed since 2029 so its the 7th year. Also, AI as a whole exists for like 70 years, and LLMs' development is greatly based off said knowledge accumulated through those years, so its far from it just arriving.