hottake for post-ai clarity

[Lance Bachmeier]

On Friday, 5 June 2026 at 22:26:06 UTC, monkyyy wrote:

> ai is verbose, it just keeps adding lines of code; it cant not 
> lay a foundation. And then 100000 lines of code is 100000 lines 
> of code and you cant actually make rapid progress ever again.
>
> Show me how ai can consistently simplify code? Or fix an api?

AI *can* do that, but it doesn't need to. Over time I've been 
using code completion more and have mostly moved away from broad 
prompts. AI is great for filling in the gaps and boilerplate in 
my design.

Letting an LLM do the design and then write the code on its own 
is a code smell. Don't blame the LLM, either. They're working as 
intended. If a manager told an employee to design a website, but 
didn't tell them anything about the purpose of the website, they 
shouldn't expect the output to match expectations.