lionkor

I've been thinking about this too; it's high time we put the capital-E Engineering into software engineering.

Ah, that makes sense. My bad!

> akin to the early GPL vs BSD wars

It's more akin to copy-pasting from stack-overflow versus people writing code, or code written by engineers vs code written by outsourced "code monkey" farms/contractors/consultants?

It's not about freedom, which is what GPL vs BSD is fundamentally about.

I'd also be interested!

The AI bashing is a response to the "AI is superintelligence and can write a kernel that's better than Linux" mentality, that is tiring, reeks of gross incompetence, and is almost maliciously wrong.

SOTA LLMs can't reliably implement a single, small feature without producing overly complex code. They don't do engineering.

My approach is two-fold: 1. frontload every conversation with a lot of guidance on how to approach things "like an engineer" (those terms are never uttered, but the guidance basically encodes my workflow as an engineer), to focus on only the problem at hand today, not overbuild things, etc, and 2. not trust a single line of code it produces.

Not today, but tomorrow maybe, Claude could prevent you from implementing anything that looks or smells like a competitor product, for example.

You think they wouldn't?

It's incredibly sad that somehow knowing how to navigate websites made for complete idiots (domain registrars) is considered worth paying for. How many middle-men do you want to pay?

Can't the website just lay itself out for print differently?

> Native cross-platform GUI built with Tauri 2 and Svelte 5

That's not native, and if you pointed it out to the LLM that wrote this, it would agree. It's just dumb so it didn't think of the fact that that's entirely the wrong term.

OBVIOUS presence of LLM-use devalues something to the point that you have to wonder why a human is in the loop at all

What role did generative AI play in the development of this?

- What personal data you process and retain (login details, access logs, statistics, etc.)

- How long you retain it

- Who (which human, name and email) to contact when you have questions

- Which third parties get the data (if you use Google fonts, Google would be one of those, since it gets the users IP), etc.

That's the sort of default stuff that must be in a privacy policy, there are a few more things that you'd need to comply with GDPR and the UK's equivalent, but that's the kind of thing you need. :)

It's missing a privacy policy, so not sure why you require login for users

That's precisely the result of jumping on "the shiny new thing", yeah! That's my point!

> Very hard for humans to keep up with LLM-generated code

Not at all. It's hard to keep up with lines of code per day, i.e. quantity.

It's not difficult for humans to keep up with the quality, and produce far superior quality code by writing it themselves or instructing an LLM what exactly to implement, down to each function's API surface (if typing is the bottleneck).

A lot of you people are forgetting that there's an engineering aspect to programming, and LLMs are really really really terrible at it out of the box.

Let's say you can let AI design and 3D print 1 large real-life bridge per week. Would you say that humans can't keep up? Or would you point out that there's a difference between what civil engineers do and what an LLM with a 3D printer does?

> You have to stay on your feet no matter what technology you use

This was said about web technologies and crypto and every other hype cycle, and it's never been true at all. The vast majority of people are okay just picking something reasonable or a default, and sticking with it.

It's not difficult to imagine that pi.dev will be around in 10 years, and it's not difficult to imagine that vim, visual studio, vscode, linux and ext4 will still be around in 10 years.

I don't know what kind of massive innovation you see here. This is like flying cars; every couple years there's a demo of a flying car of some variety, some people immediately short mercedes, and 5 years later mercedes is still around, making slightly more modern cars than before.

If you really believe that the tech-news hype cycle reflects reality, I urge you to go solve an advent of code in a normal programming language, maybe that'll help get you back on track.