logoalt Hacker News

bitwizetoday at 1:49 AM0 repliesview on HN

There's just no longer any value in good code, just like there's no value in Mel Kaye's beautiful hand-assembled programs:

https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html

But now, reading, understanding, and maintaining the software is the job of coding agents. You are free to do the interesting work: setting goals and directions for the agents, evaluating the finished product, communicating with stakeholders, etc. This has always been the hard and interesting part of systems design: solving real-world problems for people and businesses.