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rmnclmnt 2y ago
> Code needs to be written properly; you can’t just waste money and resources endlessly to cover up inefficiencies. Quite rare to hear this wise line these days. An I guess with AI coding assistant, this is only the beginning of this kind of horror story
- nurettin 2y ago
  For me, the horror story started when people ditched optimal desktop apps for Electron because they knew js and css.
  - beng-nl 2y ago
    Perhaps we can make an AI translate electron apps into native apps…
  - poisonborz 2y ago
    So tired of hearing this trope. Electron is alright. Memory is cheap. Tell me a single better way to write cross-platform UI other than a worse version of Electron.
    - nurettin 2y ago
      Sure, but what do you think would count as better?
    - mdaniel 2y ago
      > Memory is cheap If you're running on commodity hardware, sure; if you happen to be a $1T company that solders 3x marked-up RAM then that's definitely not true https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/16-inch-space-black-standard-display-apple-m4-pro-with-14-core-cpu-and-20-core-gpu-24gb-memory-512gb https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/16-inch-space... is the entry model, and clicking the 48GB option dials the price up to $3k
      - poisonborz 2y ago
        The cheapest Apple laptops start with 16GB now. That's enough for quite a few desktop apps regardless of Electron.
raverbashing 2y ago
Ok so your dev can't be told off for bringing the stuff out (and for being a moron doing sync calls to a logging service) and this brought the company down But it was a good call sending it to the cloud. Better than "my problem" it is something being "somebody else's problem"
tr33house 2y ago
enjoyable read. thanks for sharing
kelnos 2y ago
Great ending, honestly. I hope that dev got fired and truly understood what he had done, and felt the appropriate amount of shame. Not for his error, because we all make mistakes, but for his hubris that allowed him to keep making that same mistake over and over, while insisting he was doing the right thing.

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rmnclmnt 2y ago

> Code needs to be written properly; you can’t just waste money and resources endlessly to cover up inefficiencies. Quite rare to hear this wise line these days. An I guess with AI coding assistant, this is only the beginning of this kind of horror story

nurettin 2y ago
For me, the horror story started when people ditched optimal desktop apps for Electron because they knew js and css.
- beng-nl 2y ago
  Perhaps we can make an AI translate electron apps into native apps…
- poisonborz 2y ago
  So tired of hearing this trope. Electron is alright. Memory is cheap. Tell me a single better way to write cross-platform UI other than a worse version of Electron.
  - nurettin 2y ago
    Sure, but what do you think would count as better?
  - mdaniel 2y ago
    > Memory is cheap If you're running on commodity hardware, sure; if you happen to be a $1T company that solders 3x marked-up RAM then that's definitely not true https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/16-inch-space-black-standard-display-apple-m4-pro-with-14-core-cpu-and-20-core-gpu-24gb-memory-512gb https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/16-inch-space... is the entry model, and clicking the 48GB option dials the price up to $3k
    - poisonborz 2y ago
      The cheapest Apple laptops start with 16GB now. That's enough for quite a few desktop apps regardless of Electron.

raverbashing 2y ago

Ok so your dev can't be told off for bringing the stuff out (and for being a moron doing sync calls to a logging service) and this brought the company down But it was a good call sending it to the cloud. Better than "my problem" it is something being "somebody else's problem"

tr33house 2y ago

enjoyable read. thanks for sharing

kelnos 2y ago

Great ending, honestly. I hope that dev got fired and truly understood what he had done, and felt the appropriate amount of shame. Not for his error, because we all make mistakes, but for his hubris that allowed him to keep making that same mistake over and over, while insisting he was doing the right thing.