alt Hacker NewsPeople were also dismissing concerns about build tooling automatically pulling in an entire swarm of dependencies and now here we are in the middle of a repetitive string of high profile developer supply chain compromises. Short term thinking seems to dominate even groups of people that are objectively smarter and better educated than average.
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culopatin • today at 4:58 AM
If anything I feel more in control of these agents than the millions of LOC npm or pip pull in to just show me a hello world
totallymike • today at 6:07 AM
“Objectively smarter” is the last descriptor I’d apply to software developers
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vkou • today at 7:03 AM
Objectively smart people wouldn't be working so hard at making themselves obsolete.
> “high profile developer supply chain compromises”
And nothing big has happened despite all the risks and problems that came up with it. People keep chasing speed and convenience, because most things don’t even last long enough to ever see a problem.