alt Hacker NewsGastown ended because it couldn’t stop fiddling with gastown instead of making things according to yegge. No idea how this isn’t different
I’ve seen code that top model agents produce and it’s still incorrect, often faking tests, makes local maxima but otherwise boneheaded decisions and tradeoffs that are straight up horrible to run and try to maintain and I have no idea how people have convinced themselves that details no longer matter.
> I have no idea how people have convinced themselves that details no longer matter.
Quantity has a quality of its own.
Being able to ship 40 features in a week starts to look very appealing against only 4. The quality issue is often not a dealbreaker, and I’ve seen very good quality code come out of these newer models, things a human wouldn’t have thought to do or wouldn’t have time for.