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herf • today at 5:21 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

AI is not trending towards small, minimal code with nice abstractions. It is faster at replicating "big team" code, but the code from a small team or a few authors still wins for elegance and simplicity.


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iugtmkbdfil834 • today at 5:25 PM

I suppose it depends on what you mean by trending. Some of the recent rewrite news[1] for example suggest that, at minimum, it is the macro demand that is driving the software trends. In this case, issues with memory supply drive attempts at more sensible memory utilization.

[1]https://tech-insider.org/discord-electron-rust-gpui-rebuild-...

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