logoalt Hacker News

bombcaryesterday at 9:38 PM1 replyview on HN

We can blame AI for slopcoding but it's just what we've been doing for decades now - who cares if it takes 9000 lines to do what in theory Linus and Knuth and Carmack could do in 3000? Our CPUs eat a million lines of code for breakfast and demand more.


Replies

troupoyesterday at 9:50 PM

Strange then that so many apps are barely usable on these powerful CPUs. Perhaps, CPUs can no longer demand more