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Why AI-Assisted Development Is More Exhausting Than It Should Be
- PaulHoule 7mo agoThe most famous paper in software engineering that no one seems to have read: https://www.cs.unc.edu/techreports/86-020.pdf https://www.cs.unc.edu/techreports/86-020.pdf
- TonyAlicea10 7mo ago1986. Shows how little has truly changed. I think this quote from that paper is one of the most apt for the LLM age: "The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build."
- PaulHoule 7mo agoIn the mid-2010s I was working with my biz dev guy on a product concept that was in the low-code/no-code space with a heavy dose of pre-transformer AI and that paper was a north star, as it is for any serious thinking about low/no.