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I'm not talking about impressing people. We used to be concerned about code quality. Are we not anymore? Crassness was a signal. Still is, to me — in a human
by dofm 4mo ago
I'm not talking about impressing people.
We used to be concerned about code quality. Are we not anymore?
Crassness was a signal. Still is, to me — in a human I find that people who write crass code are going to cause me trouble.
- estearum 4mo ago"Code quality" encompasses a lot of dimensions, one of which is impressing your colleagues, and many of which there's virtually no reason to care about now.
- Arainach 4mo agoOn the contrary, it's more important than ever. With ever more code being generated, it's essential that the code be understandable and maintainable - by human and machine.
- michaelchisari 4mo agoAnd quality is the new differentiator when everyone can generate slop.
- pydry 4mo agoNobody cares about code quality /s They only care about the things which you can only get with good code quality like reliability and speed of development.
- estearum 4mo agoRight, and to the extent that your coding practices contribute to reliability and speed of development, they are "of quality." Now do the same exercise for "impressiveness" and "crassness." Here, I'll do it for you: > Nobody cares about code quality /s > They only care about the things which you can only get with good code quality like impressiveness and lack of crassness. Sounds silly doesn't it?
- pydry 4mo agoYour comment made no sense to me whatsoever.
- estearum 4mo agoGP was complaining about Claude's "lack of impressiveness" and "crassness." I said that's silly. You said "code quality matters". I said "it's not clear that lack of impressiveness and crassness have anything to do with code quality."
- dofm 4mo agoSome evidence that crassness is going to matter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48798815 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48798815