alt Hacker NewsThere are plenty of decades old codebases written in old guard languages that were suffering the same fate pre-ai. What is old is new again.
We will just repeat the same pattern, have the latest and greatest frontier models rewrite the software just like how many desktop monoliths moved to React SPAs.
The real winners are frontier labs, we pay them to write black box software and we pay them to rewrite the software.
Yeah, but why are we accepting that? Do we envision a scenario where code will be so black boxed that software creators will be pinching pennies and cutting corners so they can eek out a profit margin over the cost of development? It seems insane that we’ve willingly taken this route, the power when using LLMs is immense, but the power we’re giving up is all we had.
I saw a youtube comment a few months ago that has stuck in my head, can’t remember the exact wording but it was something along the lines of “I’ve never seen an industry so excited to cuck itself out of a good wage”.