In the AI era there are no excuses for production bugs! ๐
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In the AI era there are no excuses for production bugs! ๐
Last week I tried to sell a product on Facebook Marketplace.
At the end of the process a message appeared: should the conversations be moved to the archive. I clicked yes - and all the conversations stayed in my Inbox.
At first glance it looks like a small bug, but it accumulates. Everyone who sells on the platform finds their inbox filling with old messages, until it becomes impossible to keep order in it. It's hard to believe nobody reported it. Probably someone did. And it's still there.
The interesting thing is that behind this bug stands a flesh-and-blood developer. Humans are the ones who wrote, tested and approved it.
It's easy to judge AI systems for implementation mistakes, and we're still far from a point where they write code with no faults at all. But from my short experience, AI already helps significantly reduce the number of bugs the team produces. It doesn't get tired, doesn't skip rare cases, and doesn't lose focus after a sleepless night - like an autonomous car that is always fully alert.
The day when AI completely eliminates production bugs may still be far off, but it already seems to be getting close to being a "more careful developer" than most of us.
If you haven't yet moved to LLM-based development - the next bug is on you
