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by bluefirebrand 805 days ago
We haven't regressed, the code those systems used to generate was a nightmare

We're way better off without them

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Nightmare generated code is fine if you never have to look at it. This is like saying we shouldn't use react because of the div soup it spits out.

We should be able to have modern tools that don't require spelunking in their output

I think with the state of llms that we should aim for readable code output. Also react doesn't spit out a div soup, that's totally within the control of the dev