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[โ€“] Kache@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If it takes 1+ hours of work to remove a feature flag branch in an area of code, I wouldn't trust the correctness of anything the AI writes and would be super skeptical about anything the humans had written.

[โ€“] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It takes a long time because it hits a lot of files, not because it's logically complex. Also, that's why unit and integration tests exist.