alt Hacker NewsPeople were also dismissing concerns about build tooling automatically pulling in an entire swarm of dependencies and now here we are in the middle of a repetitive string of high profile developer supply chain compromises. Short term thinking seems to dominate even groups of people that are objectively smarter and better educated than average.
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> “high profile developer supply chain compromises”
And nothing big has happened despite all the risks and problems that came up with it. People keep chasing speed and convenience, because most things don’t even last long enough to ever see a problem.
“Objectively smarter” is the last descriptor I’d apply to software developers
If anything I feel more in control of these agents than the millions of LOC npm or pip pull in to just show me a hello world
Objectively smart people wouldn't be working so hard at making themselves obsolete.
It's hard to think long term when your salary depends on short term thinking. I keep seeing horrifying comments from all sorts of people saying they'd be fired if they stopped using AI to bang out ridiculous amounts of code at lightning speed.