deech1d ago
Bodil

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jcoglan/116334229654969479

Someone in my last thread on the topic quoted an unnamed startup CEO saying something like "it only has to work until we get acquired," and that sums up our so-called industry's approach to code quality perfectly. Claude Code obviously looks like a power multiplier when nobody gives a shit about the long or even medium term.

Apr 2 at 9:24amWeb
Show threadNeil Madden1d ago
@bodil welcome to the era of disposable software, I guess. At least it won’t end up in landfill.
Show threadMatthew Skelton1d ago

@neilmadden @bodil except the volumes of hardware needed in the data centre will end up in a landfill

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Show threadNeil Madden5h ago
@matthewskelton true, although I certainly hope there’s a little more effort to recycle those materials than the average plastic crap!
Show threadHoldMyType1d ago
@neilmadden @bodil but is it dispensable, for the masses ?
Show threadMartin Escardo21h ago

@neilmadden

I thought this was about disposable startups?

@bodil

Show threadoisin1d ago

@bodil THIS. Also, the regular CEO quote "customers don't want to pay for quality" ugh ugh gross. It's like cowboy roofers -- the roof looks fine but there's no insulation, no sealing, the load bearing is yolo'ed etc.

Most CEOs I have worked with do not give a tin shit about the machinery looks like as long as number goes up in the short term.

Show threadDavid Gregory1d ago
@bodil @oisin conveniently they all forget that they trained us not to believe in paying for quality via price segmentation
Show threadSteve Buzzard1d ago
@bodil Meanwhile all those people - they're still out their in legion - who have been holding onto the debunked-at-inception LOC measurements of productivity until someone pries them from their cold dead hands are in hog heaven I guess. "The machines would have all the LOCs they would ever need."
Show threadSteve Buzzard1d ago
@bodil s/their/there - geez.
Show threaddeech1d ago
@bodil this totally explains it, and the kicker is the mindset makes the quality uniformly bad independent of tech stack, so you can't make things better by adopting, say, Haskell or something.
Show threadBodil1d ago
@deech Maybe not, but at least it would be more fun.
Show threadPhilippa Cowderoy1d ago

@bodil @deech Why does that make me think Scary Devil Monastery?...

(maybe it's because I've seen what kind of twisted shit I can pull when I only have to explain it to similarly twisted people)