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I think he’s got a point actually. How many times has a compiler told you about a missing semicolon ”here“, and you’ve never thought, ”well if you’re so clever,
by 9dev 2y ago
I think he’s got a point actually. How many times has a compiler told you about a missing semicolon ”here“, and you’ve never thought, ”well if you’re so clever, why don’t you just solve it?!“
Code is an awful abstraction to capture chains of thoughts, but it’s the best we’ve got. Still, caring about syntax, application architecture, concurrency, memory layout, type casting, …—all of that is just busywork, not making the robot go beep.
- mdaniel 2y agoed: or did you omit a "not" as in "not just busywork"? > application architecture, I think you got carried away with your analogy there, because I can assure you that if the LLM generates kafkaClient.sendMessage everywhere for latency sensitive apps, that's not gonna go well, or similar for httpClient.post for high throughput cases
- 9dev 2y agoNeither. What I was trying to say was that all tasks I listed are just there to please the binary gods, not to solve actual business problems. With Application architecture, I was more referring to the layout of the code, as in module boundaries, class inheritance, and so on.