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crnkofetoday at 4:48 PM0 repliesview on HN

All this mindless droning about societal collapse, destruction of jobs, people moving on is really getting old. Sure people have caused mayhem by following (and enforcing) bad practices which resulted in a toxic workplace, a mix of pissed of client due to constantly failing to reach deadlines, unimaginably bad codebase that was a horror to work with and teammates each defending their own turf. LLMs now allow this deterioration to happen much quicker and more effectively.

On the other hand the problem can also be triaged quicker and rewritten faster. Pretty much every startup I joined had at its core disastrous code written by students and overworked techies. I can totally see this shitty base being the future base all startups. It'll likely need an army of agents or devs to make sense of all the spaghetti being written. I won't be surprised if demand for devs skyrockets after the first generation of spaghetti western code "matures".