> You cannot say that breaking the social contract (the fabric of society, if you will) is generally a good thing

I am not saying it's a good thing, just that it's a common attitude here

I suppose it didn't come through in my original post, but I was trying to be critical

> AI ultimately breaks the social contract

Business schools teach that breaking the social contract is a disruption opportunity for growth, not a negative,

The Hacker in Hacker News refers to "growth hacking" now, not hacking code

> little structs and helpers all over the place that we already have in common modules

I've often wondered about building some kind of automated "this codebase already has this logic" linter

Not sure how it would actually work, otherwise I'd build it. But it would definitely be useful

Maybe an AI tool could do something like that nowadays. "Search this codebase for instances of duplicated functions and list them out" sort of thing