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minus-squarewalter_wiggles@lemmy.nzOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoI totally agree, but I don’t hear any discussion about how to incentivize developers to do it. If AI makes creating new code disproportionately easy, then I think DRY and refactoring will fall by the wayside.
minus-squareSentient Loom@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoHow do we currently incentivize developers to keep it DRY? Code review still exists.
I totally agree, but I don’t hear any discussion about how to incentivize developers to do it.
If AI makes creating new code disproportionately easy, then I think DRY and refactoring will fall by the wayside.
How do we currently incentivize developers to keep it DRY? Code review still exists.