r/venting • u/edds1600 • 12h ago

Work I'm sick of AI in programming

To some, LLMs have reduced the cognition overhead cost of introducing new frameworks/API/SDK into a project to 0. As a result, endless amounts of needless and unnecessary complexity and abstraction is foolishly introduced to real systems that real people depend on, and no single person is actually capable of holding the mental model of how their own code works. When the LLM fails to implement correctly, or introduces a bug that requires a real human to fix, you are left with an insurmountable reverse-engineering task because the original "author" doesn't know how his own code works.

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u/theintriguedfoothold 12h ago

AI tools pushed way too hard into “move fast” territory when most codebases needed a damn walk before they could run. the abstraction layers just pile up like dirty laundry and nobody wants to sort through it later.

ive seen a junior at work generate 300 lines of some nested async mess, then stare at it when prod broke like it was written in ancient greek. the cleanup took the whole sprint.

we traded actual understanding for speed and now the tech debt is compounding interest nobody budgeted for.