pragmatic

Eh?

Forever wars, the Patriot Act and a financial crises that took years to recover from under another president?

Yes, that’s where the pesticide are. Can’t get enough pesticides.

“ replaced with computers and with people who know how to use them”

One of those things is true…

Ownership of something you have little control over is a great way to burn yourself out.

If you constantly have to push back against the eager puppy jr dev who’s 1000% sure their vibe slop is prod ready and has proudly told the admiring crowd of stake holders it’s ready to go, wtf kind of life is that? Now the senior/lead is the bad guy and is in the no win scenario.

Yuck.

And then the senior engineer burns the f#ck out.

Reviewing 100 lines of Junior dev slop was bad enough. Now 1000 lines of misguided jr dev ai slop?

Ugh.

Because everyone wants to Cargo Cult the architecture they see in Big Tech blogs.

“If we build like Google, we become Google”

I don’t know why a small company would want Google’s engineering problems.

Why did Uncle Boob ever have any credence or credibility?

What did Bob ever ship that gives him any gravitas or authority in this area?

Are the examples any better?

What a muddled bunch of gibberish.

Yes. So all you need to do is look at the code samples.

Is the most non-sensical thing I've seen. So of course the junior dev parade thinks it's the gospel.

Had a terrible manger who would swear by this book but couldn't code his way out of a paper bag.

What?

Agent code can only be read and understood by agents. We’ve reached the point where people just can’t comprehend these giant code blobs.

Feature, bug or emergent property?

I don’t think the distinction matters as much as the reality.

We’re being locked into using the AI tooling bc the code was generated with AI tooling.

These giant files of doom were being generated by humans anyway and were very hard to work with. With LLMs it’s at last manageable or feasible to edit, refactor etc.

I honestly think LLMs are going to save us from ourselves as the codebases became too large and “messy” for humans to comprehend. (Mono repos of doom)

On a personal level these giant files are abhorrent but that’s just personal taste and I don’t think any of the Martin Fowler refactor/cleanup stuff is going to matter at all anymore. Kinda sad on some level.

Could just as easily say the same thing about Bun.

If one can easily swap in the next new js engine du jour…

$30 billion for “hundreds of jobs.”

Theater to keep Mad King Trump off their back.