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> software development has gotten infinitely easier Writing good software is as hard as it has ever been. IDEs don’t help you with anything that makes proper s
by dmitrygr 2y ago
> software development has gotten infinitely easier
Writing good software is as hard as it has ever been. IDEs don’t help you with anything that makes proper software difficult. The only thing that has changed is that users have been conditioned to accept shit.
- staunton 2y agoNever let "good" be the enemy of "cheaper and roughly on par with the competition".
- s1mplicissimus 2y agoThat's the mantra of this current LLM era
- entropicdrifter 2y agoIf you think this is a new perspective on software development, I've got some dotcom bubble stocks to sell you
- DowagerDave 2y ago>> software development has gotten infinitely easier Software development hasn't even gotten a magnitude easier, let alone infinitely. Every improvement has addressed accidental aspects not the essence.
- fragmede 2y agoby sheer accessibility of computers, programming has gotten easier. Computers used to be these behemoths, now, the usb-c to hdmi adapter I have lying around can do more FLOPS than the computer that took us to the Moon. Maybe not infinitely, but it's sure gotten easier and more accessible.
- rbanffy 2y ago> Writing good software Unfortunately, market pays mostly for CRUDs with various styles of APIs on top.
- codr7 2y agoThe barrier to entry has been lowered, and I'm not sure that's such a good thing short term. Software developer used to be a thing, these days it means absolutely nothing. People have no respect for experience and skills anymore, it's all about the profit and any bootcamp monkey can make money.