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Ai Code or AI Chaos? - ReInventing the Wheel


 



Solving coding problems was one of my responsibilities as a Sytems Programmer in the 80th of the previous century.   


The programs were written in COBOL.  

A programmer had a probelm in a simple Program which copied File to File, probably omitting some of the fields. 

She complained about the need to write her program. "It is better that the Systems Programmers will write a general purpose  program copying file to file and we will have to supply only the parameters" she said. 



The Wheel was invented long ago



I told her that there is no need that we will write such a program, as well as there is no need that she will code her program. 


IBM already supplied a free utility called IEBCOPY which is performing the task she asked for.



The Chaos of AI Coding



Stories like the old bizzar story depicted in the previous section will become common stories in the AI coding age. 


It is easy to ask Claude or ChatGPT to code simple programs.

It is not always easy to define the funcionality.

Maintenace is not always easy. 


Many Programmes will use AI Bots to code programs. Unfortunately many of them will reinvent the Wheel i.e. write the same program many times.

A slight functionalty differences as well as Bugs will differentiate between similar functionalty programs. 


Maintenace could be a nightmare,


Is it not better to think before asking AI Chat Bot to code a program?


  

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