alt Hacker NewsI don’t know what kind of software your used to but software is pretty much universally dog shit these days. I could probably count on one hand the number of programs that I actually like using. There is an astronomical room for improvement. I don’t think we are hitting diminishing returns any time soon.
I talk about this at length in one of my previous posts here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39963058. I definitely share your opinion and I think this will be exacerbated by vibe coding and having LoC as the main KPI for engineering teams.