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The patient with heart disease doesnt give a shit about exercising and eating healthy they just want the doctor to make them better. No business has ever appre

by pydry 2mo ago

The patient with heart disease doesnt give a shit about exercising and eating healthy they just want the doctor to make them better. No business has ever appreciated my craft directly and why would they? Theyve just enjoyed the indirect benefits - speedy delivery of bug free features. Sometimes execs understood why they got that from one team and not another, mostly they didn't. The difference these days is not that high quality code isnt appreciated it's just that there is a religion that has developed around AI being The One True Way To Develop. When it is delivering worse quality work, more slowly that is usually tolerated because the hope is that it will long term lead to the ability to lay off engineers.

laichzeit0 2mo ago
You are correct on all counts. This is the IKEA phase of software development. Disposable shit. Need something new and ask an LLM to summon it into existence. I guess you could compare it to this hand-crafted desk I’m sitting at that my great grandfather built himself. He was a carpenter. It’s still here, decades later. To be honest, my next desk would be some IKEA shit, because it’s cheap and I can replace it every few years as fashion changes. But I get the emotional attachment.
- pydry 2mo ago
  The economics of code and carpentry are different though. A really good piece of code to, say, calculate taxes can be written once and used by a million people. Or, a million people might generate a one off piece of slop to calculate their taxes. Which one was more efficient? I do think that disposable easy to validate software will probably never be human written again but I also think that the demand for this type of software is wildly overestimated. Users mostly don't want a bespoke weather app that is customized to their prompt they want one which they can trust.

by pydry 2mo ago

laichzeit0 2mo ago

You are correct on all counts. This is the IKEA phase of software development. Disposable shit. Need something new and ask an LLM to summon it into existence. I guess you could compare it to this hand-crafted desk I’m sitting at that my great grandfather built himself. He was a carpenter. It’s still here, decades later. To be honest, my next desk would be some IKEA shit, because it’s cheap and I can replace it every few years as fashion changes. But I get the emotional attachment.

pydry 2mo ago
The economics of code and carpentry are different though. A really good piece of code to, say, calculate taxes can be written once and used by a million people. Or, a million people might generate a one off piece of slop to calculate their taxes. Which one was more efficient? I do think that disposable easy to validate software will probably never be human written again but I also think that the demand for this type of software is wildly overestimated. Users mostly don't want a bespoke weather app that is customized to their prompt they want one which they can trust.