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• muldvarp 11mo ago
  Was there? Software has always been a "speed of delivery over correctness" discipline. LLMs will just crank that up to 11.
• adastra22 11mo ago
  On the other hand, this is an example of a new category of tools: things made by individuals scratching an itch, that wouldn't have been made otherwise because the barrier to entry was too high. There will always be a need for high quality human-reviewed software, but I think we should celebrate this too.
  • Mountain_Skies 11mo ago
    Scratching an itch with a rusty nail risks tetanus.
    • isolatedsystem 11mo ago
      You'd be surprised. I have to run RHEL at work, with Gnome. No Albert, no Wofi, no Rofi. Fuck all in the repositories. For months I missed typing Alt + Space, typing filename, hitting enter and having it open. One evening with Claude. Done. Obviously it's not perfect, but man what an amazing thing to be able to do. I'm not even a software developer. LLMs are the new Excel.
  • foobarian 11mo ago
    This category of projects reminds me of how the aliens in Niven's "Mote in God's Eye" used to work, making instant bespoke things as they went along.
• swiftcoder 11mo ago
  > There was a time people took pride in writing high quality software. And other people have always churned out low-quality software that solves a problem they have in a specific way. This is just sort of accelerating
• Mtinie 11mo ago
  From my viewpoint you are conflating software quality with ambition. All software develops iteratively. Tools now celebrated for quality and consistency (commercial and OSS alike) shipped from states where they were neither. Jerm-CAD existing gives it a shot at improvement. The alternative is it doesn’t exist.