jcoglanRE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116331940556649057
this whole thread is incredible but I am absolutely screaming at \u2014
apologies to anyone who already read me saying this on bsky but: for the price of claude code, I could pay off my mortgage 3-4 years earlier. so as a notional labour saving device, it is competing with "four years of additional uninterupted leisure time", which I would say is a pretty high bar to clear
the idea that I, a pretty capable computer programmer, should pay *four years of my life* to people who make 10x as much money as me to ship the worst dreck I have ever laid eyes on, is just profoundly insulting, on top of all the other harm this shit causes
I'm actually pleased I've spent several years very slowly writing a small program by actually learning a lot about what it needs to do and thinking about its design and painstakingly validating it. it beats the pants off putting my name on this garbage
PuercoPopeveryone I have ever worked with is leagues better at writing code than this, what are we doing here
until now I would have said that LLMs produce median-quality work, not high quality, kind of by definition. but this isn't even median quality, it is way below that
Cottagecore Torment Nexus
Guillaume Téchené
ben
buherator@jcoglan The general view is that most code doesn't have to be good at all, it just needs to be written.
Jeff GriggThey all say that.
But when they find bugs or need changes, thay don't understand how things "suddenly" got so bad! 🙄