alt Hacker NewsIt does not matter how much stuff is built. What matters is what comes out of it.
And with AI the result of 99.9% is abandonware. Just piles of code no one will ever touch again.
Which proves the point of no productivity gains. Its just cheap dopamine hits.
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tempaccount5050 • yesterday at 9:49 PM
Missing the point. I no longer need to buy or rely on someone else for software I want to use. A lot of things I want to do ARE one offs. I can write software and throw it away when I'm done.
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grim_io • yesterday at 9:49 PM
Abandonware is what the customer wants.
Constant enshittification and UI redesigns are driven by the provider to justify monthly extortion.
The user you're responding too lists a "blood test viewer" [0], which looks to be a tool that turns his blood test PDFs into structured and analyzed data. You're saying that unless he continuously revises/upgrades the code, it's still "abandonware" even if it meets his needs for the near future?
[0] https://github.com/skorokithakis/dracula