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Sure. However I have a strange feeling when I read all AI praises and how productive everyone is while seeing more and more broken things everywhere. Sometimes

by dmantis 21d ago

Sure. However I have a strange feeling when I read all AI praises and how productive everyone is while seeing more and more broken things everywhere. Sometimes from the same very productive people. Otherwise we might have said that maybe broken stuff goes from AI-deniers. If everyone is doing the job of hundreds, extremely productive and everything is so easily fixed, why everything feels so slow and broken, even so basic things? That's kind of the point. I'd expect nearly perfect websites everywhere, especially from "productivity" people who mastered the flow.

throw10920 21d ago
> If everyone is doing the job of hundreds, extremely productive and everything is so easily fixed, why everything feels so slow and broken, even so basic things? This doesn't make sense. There were slow and broken things before AI. This was true even when the things were made by hundreds or thousands of engineers. If an organization doesn't care about making their app or site fast or correct, then unless they have a truly ludicrous amount of free manpower (more than is available now with AI, because review and architecture are still bottlenecks), it probably won't happen. AI doesn't change this. AI doesn't change the priorities of an organization, it just changes how quickly and cheaply they can build. And every org has a point in their priority queue where things are no longer worth it to spend resources on. If Venmo didn't care about making their login page work well with Firefox (which, in my experience, they don't) before AI, why would you expect it to be better with AI?
dingaling911 20d ago
I think what you're seeing is A LOT of moving fast that wasn't possible before. When you move fast, you break things. Where it would take 6 hours to make a first cut of a static site, you can now do that in 15 minutes. Obviously that's not going to be perfect.

by dmantis 21d ago

throw10920 21d ago

> If everyone is doing the job of hundreds, extremely productive and everything is so easily fixed, why everything feels so slow and broken, even so basic things? This doesn't make sense. There were slow and broken things before AI. This was true even when the things were made by hundreds or thousands of engineers. If an organization doesn't care about making their app or site fast or correct, then unless they have a truly ludicrous amount of free manpower (more than is available now with AI, because review and architecture are still bottlenecks), it probably won't happen. AI doesn't change this. AI doesn't change the priorities of an organization, it just changes how quickly and cheaply they can build. And every org has a point in their priority queue where things are no longer worth it to spend resources on. If Venmo didn't care about making their login page work well with Firefox (which, in my experience, they don't) before AI, why would you expect it to be better with AI?

dingaling911 20d ago

I think what you're seeing is A LOT of moving fast that wasn't possible before. When you move fast, you break things. Where it would take 6 hours to make a first cut of a static site, you can now do that in 15 minutes. Obviously that's not going to be perfect.