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Anybody remember the days of “macromedia”? I think it was dreamweaver that spit out WYSIWYG trash from people that didn’t know better. For a period of time the
by xyst 2y ago
Anybody remember the days of “macromedia”? I think it was dreamweaver that spit out WYSIWYG trash from people that didn’t know better.
For a period of time there was a segment of development cleaning up this slop or just redoing it entirely.
The AI-generated slop reminds me of that era.
- xp84 2y agoHot take, I guess, but can you actually say the slop that came out of dreamweaver is any worse than the React-based slop that most people generate now? 25 years ago it was font tags and table layouts, now it’s a styled components div soup generated by 2-3 orders of magnitude more code, in a sprawling NPM dependency tree that takes several minutes to install on modern hardware. It’s all crap once you get away from the simplest prototype and single-person project.