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Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?

17•antipurist•55m ago
This is intended as a question about the current phase of the LLM hype cycle, and, at the same time, as a reality check about whether reluctance to rely on LLMs is economically viable for an average developer.

You've definitely seen that many companies progressed from "use LLMs for anything and everything" policies to limiting budgets and scopes of approved LLM usage. It wouldn't be unexpected to see that some companies might decide that generating more code faster doesn't meaningfully contribute to their bottom line, and forego LLMs in favour of human authoring, but does it ever happen?

I'm not trying to point out any (de)merits of the new way of software development, I simply want to know if there are many/any companies that went back to the old ways.

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tomwuu•34m ago
Although code quality may sometimes suffer, no one can deny the productivity gains AI brings to software development.
greenchair•14m ago
Best use cases are along the periphery: security checks, performance checks, test generation.
loluturnkey•12m ago
i dont know
sajithdilshan•4m ago
I don’t think that would ever happen. AI as a tool made the life so much easier removing initial inertia.

I agree that we still haven’t figured out what’s the best way to use AI tools, but over the time it would mature and people would come up with patterns, conventions, and design principles so the quality of what is produced will be maintained or increased while keeping the productivity gains.

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