alt Hacker NewsJevon's paradox implies we're getting more fast software, and more slow software. Sturgeon’s law implies the ratio will remain the same. 90% of what ships will be slow, buggy, slop. Just as it was before LLMs.
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paulhebert • today at 3:37 AM
I wonder if AI has changed the 90% rate. From my perspective it’s already increased the ratio of what I’d consider bad.
I haven’t seen as big of an impact on the “good” side. People with attention to detail and craft can use it with great results but they’re not pumping things out at the speed of the slip slingers.
I think this is the most accurate take on this thread. I've written super optimised code in assembly and SIMD. But only for contests never at work, because I've never had an employer that cared to optimise things that far, they just wanted cheap software that worked just good enough to get the job done. Even in places where they actually cared about quality would usually prefer adding a couple features over optimising things that much.