alt Hacker News> ... has been declining for a few years IMO
Interesting: there's a huge correlation with everybody beginning to use LLMs.
And we dismiss it as being non-causal by saying it all started going downhill before the advent of LLMs?
I don't buy it. I think we're seeing the results of what happens when you hand the keys of the kingdom to LLMs.
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CamperBob2 • today at 8:35 PM
Using LLMs properly leads to better software, not just more of it.
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vconnor • today at 9:39 PM
It's the same with layoffs: there's always a top comment trying very hard to convince everybody that AI usage has played no part.
I really don't see the correlation, actually. On the contrary, I'm finding nasty defects with it that have been dormant for long and handwaved away, with repros to reveal them.
It's been full speed downhill for many years, and the failure modes are pretty distinct.