alt Hacker NewsYes, but given a feature that should take say 100 lines of code, the average programmer will write in the order of 100 to 500 lines. If they're a heavy OOP user, maybe they'll write 10 classes that total 2000 lines. Regardless, worst case, it will be within ~2 orders of magnitude of a reasonable solution.
It's not that they're not trying to write the biggest clusterfuck possible and maximize suffering in the world, it's just that there's a human limit on how much garbage they can type out in their allocated time.
This is where AI revolutionizes things. You want 25,000 lines of React? On the backend? And a custom useEffect-backed database? Certainly!
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Yeah, in the past the limiting factor was the human suffering of the engineer who had to try and fit the sprawling nightmare fuel into their brain.
The machine doesn't suffer. Or if it does nobody cares. People eventually start having panic attacks, the machine can just be reset.
I suspect that the end result is just driving further into the wilderness before reality sets in and you have to call an adult.
> it's just that there's a human limit on how much garbage they can type out in their allocated time.
Another example where removing friction and constraints is a bad thing.