alt Hacker NewsCounterpoint: This no longer matters because we are not going back to hand-writing these functions. These patterns were designed to make code easier for humans to read and write, but that is no longer the primary way software is built.
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hollowturtle • today at 3:21 PM
Counterpoint: as long as context don't rot or it's less effective that starts maintaining repetitions only slightly different. Also
> we are not going back to hand-writing these functions
do you really think there isn't a good chunk, if not the majority outside some bubbles, of developers that still hand code? Crazy to hear, I bet you're not a programmer
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Code structure still matters for cost effectiveness and performance over time
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.20049 https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13280