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Flam1ng1cecream t1_j13zqlv wrote

Reply to comment by Ok-Welder-4816 in Study finds AI assistants help developers produce code that's more likely to be buggy / Computer scientists from Stanford University have found that programmers who accept help from AI tools like Github Copilot produce less secure code than those who fly solo. by Sorin61

> especially if I'm making the same change in many different places

Have you considered that that might be a code smell?

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epic_null t1_j14aaor wrote

Sometimes code is gonna smell.

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reconrose t1_j14flor wrote

Some people are completely beholden to DRY principals that that go into a fury when they hear code was repeated even if they have 0 context around it

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Flam1ng1cecream t1_j14hwkk wrote

Nah, I repeat code sometimes too. Still sets off alarm bells in my head tho

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Ok-Welder-4816 t1_j17dfvw wrote

Oh yeah, DRY is always top of mind for me. But only on new stuff, which is only part of my typical workload.

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Ok-Welder-4816 t1_j17d8yg wrote

Yep, but I removed it for brevity.

In my line of work, we inherit other people's messes and patch them up for extortionate hourly rates. We're the ones you call when the Indian contractor writes a bunch of gobbledegook and then bails on you. Then the focus is more on the biggest impact, lowest-effort items, not "nice to haves" like clean code.

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