Spent some time (slightly) re-abstracting a bunch of code yesterday. I started that particular project trying to follow some of the anti-abstraction gospel that

Spent some time (slightly) re-abstracting a bunch of code yesterday. I started that particular project trying to follow some of the anti-abstraction gospel that came up on HN in the past months. Expecting new people to join the effort sometime in the future, it seemed to make sense. But certain things just ended up being spread out too broadly over time. I worried a newcomer would miss some related thing that I purposefully left unrelated. Having read this thread, I really hope that this kind of (comparatively shallow) architectural problem is something AI can help with sooner rather than later. Or at least the onboarding process to a new codebase could be tackled by some smarter tools / better IDEs. Seems like there’d be some real value in that.