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When 150 lines of boilerplate can land you the first page on HN, maybe it is, in fact, the end of programming?
by zeroq 3y ago
When 150 lines of boilerplate can land you the first page on HN, maybe it is, in fact, the end of programming?
- yen223 3y agoLet's not be one of those people who measure developer productivity by number of lines
- KhoomeiK 3y agoKarpathy’s micrograd [1] is literally 154 lines. Guess programming ended 4 years ago. [1] https://github.com/karpathy/micrograd https://github.com/karpathy/micrograd
- DSingularity 3y agoYou think autograd is boilerplate?
- klysm 3y agoI’m not really sure what your point is. Is it not remarkable that valuable things can be done in 150 lines?
- xpe 3y agoI agree with you. / Above, I wouldn't assume a single nor clearly intended "point". Reading it I got an impression more of concern, even fear. I'm guessing one underlying driver may be a concern that AI is creeping into more and more programming. Which is true.
- yowlingcat 3y agoCarmack's infamous fast inverse square root was only 13 lines. Measuring code by line metrics rather than its contents reflects shallow, questionable comprehension.
- sevagh 3y agoIf the first line of Carmack's infamous code was "import fast_inverse_square_root" from Pypi.org, it wouldn't be as impressive.