alt Hacker NewsWe aren't seeing productivity gains in software either. What we are seeing is a lot of people who claim to be more productive, but in fact are building piles of tech debt that will fall over before long. But hey, they're building that tech debt really fast!
> but in fact are building piles of tech debt that will fall over before long
This is speculation as well. Its well founded but speculation nonetheless. Youre speculating things will stay the way they have till now.
I do see your point but what makes me consoder the other side is that ive been building an app that reaches ~10k LOC, purely with opus, no code review at all, and it hasnt hit any tech debt issues that i havent easily been able to address. Setting up good context management meant that claude could just figure things out itself.
And for reference this is an app that manages an ethernet camera, runs vehicle detection on the stream, and surfaces the detections on an ipad for operators to inspect and annotate for cellphone usage, so not trivial. Needed good architechtong and design from my end, but it was honestly scarily easy. So idk what the threshold for tech debt crash is but it wasnt there