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Why would you ever care about looking at code? Code forges aren't really a useful tool going forward. As agents replace people writing code, the features of cod
by a2ff6eeb0 2mo ago
Why would you ever care about looking at code? Code forges aren't really a useful tool going forward. As agents replace people writing code, the features of code forges really aren't that useful. Nobody will be reviewing agent code other than agents, and you don't need a pull request and code review model for that.
Coding is just going to be asking for a result and manually testing it, no real thought about what code has been generated, and no human should ever need to look at or review it. Even some versioned tarball on s3 will do for the storage.
So, really, who cares about what they do when their entire business model (and Github's) is speedrunning becoming obsolete?
Basically, the future of tools like github is a platform for manual testing, where the AI proposes a change and you can experiment with the UI and attach notes for the next iteration. The whole idea of coders carefully reviewing the output of LLMs is insane, it'd be like carefully poring over the output of GCC; we've made lines of code so cheap and skill-free that there's no point in these platforms that treat code like it's important to view.
- GPerson 2mo agoI find it fulfilling to write and read code. It’s also a powerful technology. That doesn’t just change just because there’s another technology more powerful in certain ways. These are some level 0 reasons to want to read code, but there are lots.
- a2ff6eeb0 2mo agoOk, sure. Hobbyist purposes excluded.
- GPerson 2mo agoYou don’t buy the argument the open source movement has been putting out for decades about code transparency increasing freedom?
- a2ff6eeb0 2mo agoThe code is so cheap today that you can just ask an LLM to generate it for you, for all but the largest projects. I don't get why you'd care about humans being involved, no.
- websap 2mo agoThe code is cheap, but the mistakes in production are very expensive! You want to be leading the agent, not lagging the produced code.