Hand-written code is required for fine craftsmanship.
Unless you're building a code museum you shouldn't really treat any of your code as a rare artefact that you carefully crafted and honed to perfection. That way lies tech debt that you'll never clear up because you're too attached to the sunk cost of the effort you spent on that beautiful code. All code is disposable. You should be actively looking for things to delete or refactor all of the time.
If you can build your application from entirely disposable code that is a huge benefit. You can't right now, because LLMs aren't good enough, but if they ever get there this strikes me as a massively positive thing about the code they write. So many companies spend far too much time building things because the most senior engineers find it hard to let go of an idea they had 5 years ago.
Cheap as shit, constantly pollutes the air, useless for most applications, will inevitably turn to mush if employed for anything but superficial purposes, and nevertheless will be used everywhere it’s not appropriate?
Hand-written code is required for fine craftsmanship.
Unless you're building a code museum you shouldn't really treat any of your code as a rare artefact that you carefully crafted and honed to perfection. That way lies tech debt that you'll never clear up because you're too attached to the sunk cost of the effort you spent on that beautiful code. All code is disposable. You should be actively looking for things to delete or refactor all of the time.
If you can build your application from entirely disposable code that is a huge benefit. You can't right now, because LLMs aren't good enough, but if they ever get there this strikes me as a massively positive thing about the code they write. So many companies spend far too much time building things because the most senior engineers find it hard to let go of an idea they had 5 years ago.
2023-12-30
Cheap as shit, constantly pollutes the air, useless for most applications, will inevitably turn to mush if employed for anything but superficial purposes, and nevertheless will be used everywhere it’s not appropriate?
Yeah, sounds about right.