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flir • today at 8:05 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Both CLIs are getting worse. I think it's because they keep bolting in unconsidered "features", not because of the code quality.

But maybe being able to code up a feature at the drop of a hat has turbo-charged their ability to make bad UX decisions.


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bakugo • today at 8:53 PM

I believe it's all related. They keep adding new, badly thought out features because it's much easier than improving existing features built on low quality code.

The latter requires modifying existing, badly architectured and tightly coupled code that will almost definitely break something somewhere else if touched, so what do you do? Just keep adding new code on top and hope for the best.

This is not a new phenomenon by any means, but AI amplifies it by 100x.