alt Hacker NewsIt really doesn’t matter anymore. I’m saying this as a person who used to care about it. It does what it’s generally supposed to do, it has users. Two things that matter at this day and age.
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It may be economically effective but such heartless, buggy software is a drain to use. I care about that delta, and yes this can be extrapolated to other industries.
Do compilers care about their assembly generated code to look good? We will soon reach that state with all the production code. LLMs will be the compiler and actual today's human code will be replaced by LLM generated assembly code, kinda sorta human readable.
This is the dumbest take there is about vibe coding. Claiming that managing complexity in a codebase doesn't matter anymore. I can't imagine that a competent engineer would come to the conclusion that managing complexity doesn't matter anymore. There is actually some evidence that coding agents struggle the same way humans do as the complexity of the system increases [0].
Users stick around on inertia until a failure costs them money or face. A leaked map file won't sink a tool on its own, but it does strip away the story that you can ship sloppy JS build output into prod and still ask people to trust your security model.
'It works' is a low bar. If that's the bar you set you are one bad incident away from finding out who stayed for the product and who stayed because switching felt annoying.
>Two things that matter at this day and age.
That's all that has mattered in every day and age.