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1. kace91+Ek[view] [source] 2026-02-04 21:59:04
>>strayd+(OP)
>The people really leading AI coding right now (and I’d put myself near the front, though not all the way there) don’t read code. They manage the things that produce code.

I can’t imagine any other example where people voluntarily move for a black box approach.

Imagine taking a picture on autoshot mode and refusing to look at it. If the client doesn’t like it because it’s too bright, tweak the settings and shoot again, but never look at the output.

What is the logic here? Because if you can read code, I can’t imagine poking the result with black box testing being faster.

Are these people just handing off the review process to others? Are they unable to read code and hiding it? Why would you handicap yourself this way?

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2. Charle+cn[view] [source] 2026-02-04 22:11:26
>>kace91+Ek
AI-assisted coding is not a black box in the way that managing an engineering team of humans is. You see the model "thinking", you see diffs being created, and occasionally you intervene to keep things on track. If you're leveraging AI professionally, any coding has been preceded by planning (the breadth and depth of which scale with the task) and test suites.
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