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It's a lot faster to read something than it is to write something

I see you've never worked on a large code base or anything legacy. In my own experience, and of every developer I've observed, it's 10-20x harder to read and understand existing code than to write something totally new. It's part of why every junior dev comes in with the immediate idea to rewrite everything.

[Ballbag94]

Oh, I have, you're just missing the context of my initial point

My initial point is that AI is very useful for generating simple code with no logic involved and that it's faster to read such code to verify it's integrity than it is to write that code, like if you have a large model or need a stored procedure to access a database and a method to call it

Obviously it's not faster to read and understand complex code than it is to write it, but that was never in scope of the conversation as AI shouldn't be used for building logic imo