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0 pointsclaytongulick12d ago0 comments

Thank you for making a really important point.

The lifespan of software can easily be ten or more years.

If it takes a few more months to write by hand to ensure correctness and proper abstraction, what does that save over the lifetime of the codebase?

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lmz12d ago

It's a rare piece of software that lasts that long. For the rest of us there's LLMs.

anthk12d ago

In JS land, for sure; for systems' programming and software made for small and medium companies, that's granted.

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lmz12d ago

It's a rare piece of software that lasts that long. For the rest of us there's LLMs.

anthk12d ago

In JS land, for sure; for systems' programming and software made for small and medium companies, that's granted.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse