alt Hacker NewsIf you took a bad but functional AI generated service and transported it back to 2018 it would have been at worst just mediocre. People do seem forget how dreadful devslop was in the past. I'd take an AI generated mess to disentangle every time over a spaghetti codebase that grew organically in the hands of careless managers.
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thfuran • today at 7:50 PM
But as more and more things depend on increasingly deep software stacks, everything goes to utter shit if the individual systems don't become more reliable.
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lokar • today at 6:38 PM
That’s true. But there were also places with very high standards and good design. And the LLM slop is pushing in there as well.
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> People do seem forget how dreadful devslop was in the past.
It was dreadful, but the volume was a single-digit percentage of what you see now.
Even those develoeprs who made a living opying from SO *still needed to make that code work for their system!"