alt Hacker NewsGood code was approximately never valued in enterprise. How many companies worth billions or even trillions have webpages that take 5+ seconds to load text, and use Electron for their desktop applications? In that regard, nothing has changed.
There is still a market for good code in the world, however. The uses of software are nearly infinite, and while certain big-name software gets a free pass on being shitty due to monopoly and network effects, other types of software will still find people who will pay for them if they are responsive, secure, not wildly buggy, and can add new features without a 6 month turnaround time because the codebase isn't a crime against humanity.
On another note, there have been at least four articles on the front page today about the death of coding. As there are every other day. I know I'm tired of reading them, but don't people get bored of writing them?
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> I know I'm tired of reading them, but don't people get bored of writing them?
Look, it's either this or a dozen articles a day about Claude Code.
> Good code was approximately never valued in enterprise.
Nope, the value the code creates was always what was valued.
Now we can refactor more easily than ever. And quite a lot of code was throwaway to begin with.. so there’s no need to deliver good code. Not in the first iteration. But if it is going to be improved upon, part of the improvement will be to prepare it for that improvement.
So funny when people point at electron as if it singlehandedly makes every program unusable.
Also, I would assume there are not many significant pages on $B/Trillion companies that take 5 seconds to load text that are used frequently.
> I know I'm tired of reading them, but don't people get bored of writing them?
People never get tired of reading or commenting on commentary on their hobbies.
Good code is extremely subjective, most bad code is built on a good code foundation. And most foundational software (think linux, ffmpeg, curl, v8, etc.) maintainers are pushing back.
Once AI/Agents actually master all tools we currently use (profilers, disassembly, debuggers) this may change but this won't be for a few years.
> I know I'm tired of reading them, but don't people get bored of writing them?
I understand the sentiment here but it shouldn't be surprising that people are upset that their profession and livelihoods are being drastically changed due to advances in AI.