2026-09-15 17:57 UTC
This isn’t One Hour Hot Dog. If you need a big huge fix right the hell yesterday, you fucked up last week. Possibly last year. And what’s gonna prevent that sort of company-liquidating blunder is a layer of crotchety obsessives who can spend a day reading and then commit one line. ‘Hit engine with hammer: $1. Knowing where to hit: $9,999.’
A system that’s pretty good at guessing a hundred places to try hitting has obvious value. Especially when undo is a thing. But this attitude of ‘the future is now, old man!’ is almost as off-base as the folks insisting a magic coding robot won’t help anybody.
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@MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2026-09-15 22:49
I agree with you. I’m not even 100% anti-AI even though a lot of how it is used absolutely reeks. Of course Big Business is gonna be all about shipping it fast and cheap to the detriment of all else as long as it “works right now.” The ridiculous farce of capitalism as we know it now is that their real goal is to sell off and bail at a profit just before all that vibe-debt comes due and things implode. It doesn’t mean it’s the best way to create software. It reminds me of how homes nowadays are thrown together and so ridiculously shoddy because it’s all about speed and holding together just long enough to sell.