alt Hacker NewsSo I accept that “nonsense arguments are nonsense”, but with some minor differences of opinion. Naming of things matters insofar as you care as a human to actually conceptualize the system you’re building. You can call all of this stuff minutiae, and on some level I kind of agree, except for the general vibe of _caring about the quality of the stuff you produce_. That is something that still matters whether it “works”. Like, yes you can get an LLM to gen some junk, but _is it any good_ is still something you are in charge of.
As far as “boring systems are boring”, I can tell you from experience that I work on a pretty boring system, and AI is not all that meaningful in terms of its impact, and it’s not for a lack of trying.
Can it help me create a migration and add an endpoint and such? Sure. But those aren’t the hard problems. They never were.
It’s funny that you think the idea of slowing down is such a bad one, but it is another well-established truth. Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast. This notion of break/fixing your way to prosperity by way of 10,000 ill-conceived PRs is a fool’s game.
I'm sorry, you might be right. But this simply doesn't reflect my daily reality. All I can say is, nobody in my org is creating 10,000 PRs. But everyone is using Claude Code for virtually all commits. We've been doing it since about Opus 4.5ish. So far, so good.
Generally we've modified our timelines heavily, systems are working as intended, company is still making money. There are some AI-authored commits that had mistakes that we didn't catch, but I'm sure this could've been an issue even if all were human-authored. I know first-hand multiple other companies who are doing exactly the same thing.
I agree with "slow is smooth, and smooth is fast" for mission critical systems. But super majority of systems are, indeed, not mission critical.