Finding It Challenging to Maintain Software Created with Coding Agents?

8 pointsposted 10 hours ago
by nlpnerd

Item id: 48705004

6 Comments

rurban

8 hours ago

If you cannot maintain it, the agent has to maintain it.

If the agent cannot maintain it, you are lost.

nlpnerd

6 hours ago

That's kind of stretching things. It's not that software cannot be maintained but the cognitive load of building and maintaining software seems to be now backloaded to the maintaining part and people need to be aware of this.

evolve2k

9 hours ago

My first statement would be that surely the challenge you are experiencing is pretty similar to what Ford has reported around its recent AI adoption.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674446

nlpnerd

9 hours ago

Well...we didn't sack anybody if you were wondering. I feel like Ford's issues is mainly overestimating AI's capabilities. Whereas our case is more of a need for re-engineering processes to be more AI-native.

beardyw

8 hours ago

It will get much worse before anyone wakes up to this problem.