About the importance of reading and understanding code

General Programming
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Here is a very interesting article about the importance of reading and understanding code, that references a 25 years-old article by Joel Spolsky:

https://www.heise.de/en/blog/Reading-code-instead-of-writing-code-The-underestimated-senior-discipline-11295136.html

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The most AI programmer having no IDea what’s inside. They test, if working: good. That’s it. And yes, using AI is leading a bit to it while the tested code which runs is not knowsn in it’s structure. And I would say in twenty years the world of coding will change entirely to this direction. Humans will more and more pushed away from programming and leaded to use AI only. This trend is started already and many companies are using AI more. And I can’t say that it is better or worse Software what comes out.

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(People using…) Applications created with AI will tell in the future (probably), provided there is a way to have that information (created with AI).

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AI can describe the functionality of your code even today. But this is not what contrlling sources means cause the risk that vulnerabilities are build in becomes higher and higher. it is like the risks you have with every system which is a black box. Not the AI written Software is the black box. The people which build an app and are not able to read the sourcecode are the problem.

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this!

Productivity on the generation side is celebrated, while the balance on the reading side is silenced. What is not read is not understood. What is not understood is not reliably operated. The debt merely shifts to the future; it does not disappear.

and it falls together with managers and customers, who just want solutions and are not interested in the technical debts behind, collecting ticking time bombs over time effectivitly.