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0 pointsAndrewKemendo5mo ago0 comments

> The hard thing about engineering is not "building a thing that works", its building it the right way, in an easily understood way, in a way that's easily extensible.

The number of production applications that achieve this rounds to zero

I’ve probably managed 300 brownfield web, mobile, edge, datacenter, data processing and ML applications/products across DoD, B2B, consumer and literally zero of them were built in this way

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kaashif5mo ago

I think there is a subjective difference. When a human builds dogshit at least you know they put some effort and the hours in.

When I'm reading piles of LLM slop, I know that just reading it is already more effort than it took to write. It feels like I'm being played.

This is entirely subjective and emotional. But when someone writes something with an LLM in 5 seconds and asks me to spend hours reviewing...fuck off.

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