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> So if you're banging out the same type of thing over and over again, yes, they will make that work light and then scarce. The same thing over and over again
by skydhash 10mo ago
> So if you're banging out the same type of thing over and over again, yes, they will make that work light and then scarce.
The same thing over and over again should be a SaaS, some internal tool, or a plugin. Computers are good at doing the same thing over and over again and that's what we've been using them for
> But if you need to create something niche, something one-off, something new, they'll slip off the bleeding edge into the comfortable valley of the familiar at every step.
Even if the high level description of a task may be similar to another, there's always something different in the implementation. A sports car and a sedan have roughly the same components, but they're not engineered the same.
> We used to worry about pointers and memory allocation.
Some still do. It's not in every case you will have a system that handle allocations and a garbage collector. And even in those, you will see memory leaks.
> Now we will worry less and less about how the code is written and more about the result it built.
Wasn't that Dreamweaver?