Baldur Bjarnason1d ago

All the devs saying that Anthropic’s code quality is “normal” are telling on themselves and everybody they’ve worked with

(Also supports what many have been saying about software quality being a crisis that precedes LLMs, but that’s another story)

Show threadMartijn Frazer1d ago

@baldur the software crisis is definitely what enabled vibe coding, I feel.

When making software was an artisan process, it was hard for corporations to scale it and treat programmers like cogs in a machine.

So they've been trying more and more to fit software development into a neat mold, essentially dumbing down the process, to the point where making an app has become "just slap together some libraries and hey presto".

That has 100% laid the foundation for LLM-generated code, I feel.

Show threadNullstring 🏴‍☠️21h ago

@Tijn @baldur do you think there is any clear line in the market, before and now also, between software mills if you will like this, and places which still put out what you would say is artisan?

i wonder this myself im not trying to be confrontational, i agree with you

Show threadMartijn Frazer
@0x00string @baldur Not particularly clear, no. I think that in general smaller companies and projects are more likely to care about their product than giant corporations. But you have to look into it on a case-by-case basis really, it's hard to draw quick conclusions.
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Show threadNullstring 🏴‍☠️9h ago
@Tijn @baldur this makes sense. im trying to think of software i use that is made by smallers companies and i think at least generally those do seem to be made with more care - but not all of them lol