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CharlieDigital • today at 12:42 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

    > because you have time to reflect
It doesn't mean that people do. This is a false narrative we tell ourselves. Yes, there are craft-oriented devs and teams, but these are the exception rather than the rule because in the end, it is the GTM and business teams that define what, when, how and rarely the engineering teams.

There is no team without tech debt because there is no "golden" project where every decision has been made right because of reflection on decisions made wrong.

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lolakutty • today at 1:08 PM

>It doesn't mean that people do.

After a certain point, people would be forced to refactor, because they find themselves unable to handle the complexity.

With LLMs, there is no such friction. So the complexity get piled upon complexity in the form of a million best practices that is indiscriminately followed...

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mohamedkoubaa • today at 12:44 PM

I formulate this idea as "Clean code never survives first contact with users"