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.
RootWyrm 🇺🇦
@bert_hubert fair to say we lost the plot not long after the dot-bombs. "Ship it" was more important than if it even functioned as described. People continually talk shit about dot-bombs from a place of ignorance.
But they cared about building something that worked. Customers wouldn't come if it didn't work.
Now the model is "fuck you, you have to use shitware, so why would we give a damn? Here's a worthless 'feature' nobody wanted so a manager could hit a LoC metric."