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Love the points you’re raising. Conversations like this feel more important than ever as AI becomes such a big part of how we build. Wish I was in San Francisco to catch it live!
AI tooling has definitely sped things up, but it’s also introduced a lot more noise. Without strong systems around maintenance and iteration, velocity just turns into chaos.
AI Generated code makes me think of Dreamweaver. It would generate the heck out of a webpage from Photoshop, but the absolute mine field of unmanageable code was wild.
My own $0.02: deepwiki is the best at generating docs; I'd recommend it over ChatGPT. Point it at any github repo and, in the URL, replace "github" with "deepwiki" and watch the magic happen.
Engineers do not write code. They engineer solutions.