bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦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.
Poul-Henning Kamp@bert_hubert @bagder @hyc @vitaut
When I started the Varnish Cache project, I explicitly tried to dial code quality up to 11, as an experiment to see if that was a feasible strategy.
With less than 20 CVE's in 20 years, I think we have given existence proof that "artisan code" is a valid way to produce high-consequence software (see also: sqlite)
But at the same time, we are very far from "install and forget" when you have to patch once a year.