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by tlrobinson
1188 days ago
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> I want to be able to create a million lines of code per month by myself. That sounds terrible. Who is going to read all that code when you need to understand and modify it? The LLMs, I guess? I'd much rather be able to write 10,000 lines of code that can do what your million lines of code does. Better programming languages, libraries, and other abstractions are what we need. |
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Sure, who wouldn't. Unfortunately this is my hypothetical and I get to control what I mean by it. The million lines of code in my hypothetical is good quality, maintainable with reasonable density.
>> Better programming languages, libraries, and other abstractions are what we need.
In the entire history of languages, we've only managed about a 10X improvement via these mechanisms (that is being charitable probably). Several important things are still written in C which would mostly be recognizable to a programmer from 40 years ago. There are still problems to solve but I feel we are on the asymptotic section of the curve in this regard.