alt Hacker NewsFeels like just yesterday that everyone agreed that critical code is read orders of magnitude more than written, so optimizing for quick writing is wrong.
Feels like just yesterday that everyone agreed that critical code is read orders of magnitude more than written, so optimizing for quick writing is wrong.
Genuinely I think that perspective is still shared by many/most engineers.
I think we’ve seen a wave of bad actors - either employees of LLM companies, or bots - pushing the idea hard of code quality not mattering and “the models will improve so fast that your code quality degrading doesn’t matter”.
I think the humans pushing that idea may even believe it, but I don’t think they’re usually employed as software engineers at regular non-AI companies, rather they have some incentive to believe it and convince others as well