alt Hacker NewsBetter developer UX can directly lead to better safety. "You are holding it wrong" is a frequent source of security bugs, and better UX reduces the ways you can hold it wrong, or at least makes you more likely to hold it the right way
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skydhash • yesterday at 1:35 PM
Friction is helpful. Putting seatbelts on takes more time than just driving, but it’s way safer for the driver. Current dev practices increase speed, not safety.
> Better developer UX can directly lead to better safety.
Depends. If you had to add to a Makefile for your dependencies, you sure as hell aren't going to add 5k dependencies manually just to get a function that does $FOO; you'd write it yourself.
Now, with AI in the mix, there's fewer and fewer reasons to use so many dependencies.