alt Hacker NewsAnyhone who tells you things like, "what, you are still looking at code and care what it looks like?" just exposes themselves as a supreme twit.
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Yeah I don't understand that attitude. There are so many people on twitter who say things like that or "X industry is cooked" etc. All pushing that narrative hard. Why are there so many people pushing it so hard like that? Are they all under the influence of the big labs and it's all guerilla marketing? Are they bots? Are there a lot of people who have drunk the kool aid or suffering AI psychosis? Normally when new tools come out this doesn't happen. I can only think of a handful of times where I've experienced this in the past where someone has pushed something on me really hard (Ruby and Rust spring to mind).
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To be fair though, the vast, vast majority of software developers out there are working on CRUD and line of business apps that a) change all the time, b) are probably irrelevant a year down the line, and c) just aren't really sophisticated at all. There was never really a need to have finely crafted, artisanal code in these code bases, but it was something developers enjoyed doing, so they did it. Yes, sure, maintainability, yada yada. For most code out there, that never mattered anyway.
So AI is kind of just bringing that to its logical conclusion.