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.
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Howard Chu @ Symas@Di4na @bert_hubert @bagder @vitaut if the outcome truly doesn't matter then it's probably software that didn't need to be written in the first place.
@hyc @bert_hubert @bagder @vitaut well depend. For the user yes.
For the people being paid and having to provide a plausible lies to investors to keep being paid, no.
Value judgement are rarely that absolute. Do i think we would be better off with a world in which we don't end up needing so much plausible lies as the main way to pay software devs? Yes
But the (inefficient) byproduct is a lot of paid software devs doing FOSS so...