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Explores the risks of over-relying on AI for code generation, introducing the concept of 'Endogamic Programming' where AI systems trained on their own outputs create stagnant development cycles. Argues that novice developers who depend too heavily on AI without understanding underlying principles risk accumulating technical debt and stunting their analytical growth. Warns that if AI generates most code without fresh human creativity and problem-solving input, innovation in software development could stagnate.

AI: The Danger of Endogamic Programming

Dani Richest Man in Babylon

If a novice developer relies blindly on AI instead of making the effort to find solutions themselves, they risk slowing their growth. In the end, they might have working code, but without understanding why it works. This lack of understanding can lead to massive technical debt.

If a novice developer relies blindly on AI instead of making the effort to find solutions themselves, they risk slowing their growth. In the end, they might have working code, but without understanding why it works. This lack of understanding can lead to massive technical debt.

In agreement with this 100% but most places don’t have proper growth ladder for juniors or even mid-level developers.

Someone said the people benefiting the most from AI are those who need it the least (experienced programmers), and I think this supports that claim. Novices skills might get worse because of it.

As a person who is developing their career in coding at this time, I am actively minimizing my use of AI to avoid these pitfalls. I use it to give me ideas and direction to move forward, but not using code from it. This is the old “give a fish teach to fish” analogy, AI can give you the code, but is it teaching you to code?

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And the boss expects a result that will be ready by the end of the day… :D
But, yeah, it’s true, if you have no control over results of LLM code production, it would become messy pretty quick.

I agree but not sure ill understand why my code works either way