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Antibabelicyesterday at 9:21 AM1 replyview on HN

This bar only seems high because the bar in most companies is already unreasonably low. We had decades of research into functional programming, formal methods and specification languages. However, code monkey culture was cheaper and much more readily available. Enterprise software development has always been a race to the bottom, and the excitement for "vibe coding" is just the latest manifestation of its careless, thoughtless approach to programming.


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habineroyesterday at 11:13 PM

> functional programming, formal methods and specification languages

Haha. Tell me you've never done professional software development without, etc. None of those things are solutions to the problem, which is: does the code do the business value it's supposed to?