alt Hacker News> should expect maybe 5x faster cycle in major software apps
To what end and what would that even look like though? Enshittifying everything at maximum speed? The apps/platforms I use regularly - GitHub, Spotify, Google maps (just to name a few), have gotten noticeably shittier in recent times.
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linsomniac • today at 2:12 AM
>GitHub, Spotify, Google maps (just to name a few), have gotten noticeably shittier in recent times.
What if AI lets you create new versions of those tools, but without the enshitification?
I say that being in the "soaking" stage of using AI to rebuild a shitty software project in 70KLOC over about 2 weeks of spare time, so this may not be as theoretical as you might think.
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Confirmation bias. The internet has complained about software updates decades before LLMs became ubiquitous. I made a career fixing human slop by domain experts.
We easily forget that the great majority of software engineering is fixing the mistakes of other highly capable software engineers.
It's just so easy to blame the machine instead of admitting no one here is an expert on anything and they count their hits and not misses. If they did, we would find the probability of making a mistake to be higher than a fronter coding agent.
It's a hard headed crowd and everyone, LLM pilled or not, suffers from the Dunning-Kruger. All of us.
Just look at the comments. Everyone is perfect when they do things themselves.