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To put it bluntly: this particular product category is now an afternoon's vibe-coding project for one person. The result would be worse code, probably. Also pro
by olmo23 24d ago
To put it bluntly: this particular product category is now an afternoon's vibe-coding project for one person. The result would be worse code, probably. Also probably still good enough.
- mojuba 24d ago> The result would be worse code, probably. Also probably still good enough. And that's because the definition of "good enough" is drifting towards "crappy", has been for decades, now accelerated by the AI. Was thinking the other day how the bars of quality for software pre-Internet was so much higher just because any small software shop only ever had one shot: ship your software on floppy disks, with practically no chance to patch and fix bugs later. People either like your 1.0 or they don't and that's your whole business story. Then came the Internet, bug fix updates became so much easier, and with it came crappification and bugs-as-a-norm attitude. And now this. Not whining, just stating the facts.
- remus 24d ago> And that's because the definition of "good enough" is drifting towards "crappy", has been for decades, now accelerated by the AI. Interestingly I have found the opposite in the software I write. LLMs make it so easy to get the basics in place that I spend the time on the details and polish.
- mojuba 24d agoAre you measuring the number of bugs per line of code in production, compared to pre-AI? That's the metric.
- remus 24d agoNothing so scientific. Im just having a lot of fun using the software I write with LLMs because I can easily add polish and build things I didnt have time for before.
- archagon 23d agoAh yes, just want I want, slopcoded dev tools by people who don’t understand what the fuck they’re doing and who will drop support the moment their agents hit some minor issue.