alt Hacker NewsIts much appreciated. Reminded me of runescape (a game) wiki devs blogpost, its an interesting read: https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/User:Cook_Me_Plox/OSRS_Wi...
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alansaber • yesterday at 4:28 PM
That graph really says it all.
cowlevel • yesterday at 5:18 PM
that amount of new plugin development is crazy when using unauthorized plugins can get you banned from the game
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gspr • yesterday at 8:13 PM
Poor guys. I'll never understand why it's so attractive to generate tons of code that you clearly don't understand, and then especially to go on and push it onto humans who do strive to understand.
samatman • today at 1:13 AM
“Hey Claude / Codex / Gemini / Deepseek / Whatever, look over this pile of steaming LLM crap and write me a paragraph on why I should reject it. If it’s good and you don’t tell me I’ll be mad. Make no mistakes”
> The median new plugin used to end up with a couple thousand installs. It's now 28.
This feels like a microcosm of software development as a whole.
There's more software than ever, yet there are fewer people engaging with said software than ever, and the good software gets buried under a giant pile of crap.