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fwiw 90% of software is reinventing the wheel. 80% of devs have an itch to "rewrite from scratch". AI will deduplicate all of this

• pluc 7mo ago
  This is fine. How else do you learn but by taking things apart and rebuilding them? This obsession with productivity is incompatible with onboarding new talent. Having 1000 versions of the same concept is exactly what progress is.
  • skeledrew 7mo ago
    > 1000 versions of the same concept That sounds beyond wasteful.
    • pluc 7mo ago
      It is. Humans are messy.
• debone 7mo ago
  My experience is that 100% of AI devs are reinventing the wheel, most of the time for no better reason than "I can do it" or "not invented here"
  • JackSlateur 7mo ago
    Is it not the business model of these companies ? Bill per token and stuff NIH = more token = good for business
  • pllbnk 7mo ago
    I opened LinkedIn today (out of habit) and the first post was someone explaining how much Slack costs and that with AI every company can build their own Slack for $100. So that person decided to build an open source Slack clone using Claude Code. Granted, these were a few sane comments showing good alternatives that have already been built. But for me it's been a signal that people have no imagination, so they are just burning tokens for no reason.