I call it the day50 problem, coined that about a year ago. I've been building tools to address it since then. Quit the dayjob 7 months ago and have been doing it full time since
Essentially there's a delta between what the human does and the computer produces. In a classic compiler setting this is a known, stable quantity throughout the life-cycle of development.
However, in the world of AI coding this distance increases.
There's various barriers that have labels like "code debt" where the line can cross. There's three mitigations now. Start the lines closer together (PRD is the current en vogue method), push out the frontier of how many shits someone gives (this is the TDD agent method), try to bend the curve so it doesn't fly out so much (this is the coworker/colleague method).
Unfortunately I'm just a one-man show so the fact that I was ahead and have working models to explain this has no rewards because you know, good software is hard...
I've explained this in person at SF events (probably about 40-50 times) so much though that someone reading this might have actually heard it from me...
https://github.com/day50-dev/
I have been meaning to put up a blog ...
Essentially there's a delta between what the human does and the computer produces. In a classic compiler setting this is a known, stable quantity throughout the life-cycle of development.
However, in the world of AI coding this distance increases.
There's various barriers that have labels like "code debt" where the line can cross. There's three mitigations now. Start the lines closer together (PRD is the current en vogue method), push out the frontier of how many shits someone gives (this is the TDD agent method), try to bend the curve so it doesn't fly out so much (this is the coworker/colleague method).
Unfortunately I'm just a one-man show so the fact that I was ahead and have working models to explain this has no rewards because you know, good software is hard...
I've explained this in person at SF events (probably about 40-50 times) so much though that someone reading this might have actually heard it from me...
If that's the case, hi, here it is again.