alt Hacker NewsWhen stuff was getting too complicated, I looked for ways to make things simpler.
Developers have spent decades trying to figure out ways to make things simpler, less code the better, only to throw it all out the window because chatbot go brrrrrr.
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It’s because business demand speed and shipping over other concerns.
We had to fight hard for proper quality controls in the face of the LLM coding assistance boom where I work. These are great tools but they have limits and can lead to poor engineering hygiene quite quickly.
It took a major issue being attributed to having too much trust in these tools before we were able to enforce better hygiene with them
please, developers are making terrible slop way before AI, look at the javascript infested frameworks in use on the web. they make NO sense. they are not making things simpler
In a very real sense, developers efforts to make web development simpler have clearly failed. This is true regardless of the existence of LLMs and/or your opinion of their utility.