bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦Mar 13
Tempted to write a post that software development lost the plot a long time ago, and that the recent LLM developments are merely the icing on that cake. Software these days is not the painstaking work by people like @bagder or @hyc or @vitaut who write the best code they possibly can. Over the past decade, "the software world" has been developing in a very different way than that.
Show threadDaniël Franke Mar 13

@bert_hubert You are not wrong, in many ways, this is a natural result of the "race to the bottom" that software has been put on by the "move fast and break things" mentality it got from Silicon Valley.

That said, this accelerates it in such a way, that I have the feeling that we might finally hit rock bottom.

Also, I wish more people acknowledged the ethical hell that LLMs represent in code, but I guess not enough people in software care about ethics for that to really make a difference.

Show threadTed Lemon

@ainmosni @bert_hubert

I feel like taking refuge in hitting rock bottom is the modern equivalent of imaging that the apocalypse is imminent so there's no point in trying to fix things (which I think is why armageddonism is so popular).

Mar 13 at 8:51amWeb
Show threadDaniël Franke Mar 13
@abhayakara @bert_hubert Fair, although that is not my intention, I am fighting it, and trying to fix things, but that doesn't stop me from acknowledging that it feels more than a little quixotic.
Show threadTed LemonMar 13

@ainmosni @bert_hubert

I hear you. I guess I'm arguing that imagining that this work is quixotic is unnecessarily self-deprecating. This work is essential. It's just that not everybody understands that yet. The future is here now, just not evenly distributed.