[dmitrygr]

> software development has gotten infinitely easier

Writing good software is as hard as it has ever been. IDEs don’t help you with anything that makes proper software difficult. The only thing that has changed is that users have been conditioned to accept shit.

[staunton]

Never let "good" be the enemy of "cheaper and roughly on par with the competition".

[s1mplicissimus]

That's the mantra of this current LLM era

[entropicdrifter]

If you think this is a new perspective on software development, I've got some dotcom bubble stocks to sell you

[DowagerDave]

>> software development has gotten infinitely easier

Software development hasn't even gotten a magnitude easier, let alone infinitely. Every improvement has addressed accidental aspects not the essence.

[fragmede]

by sheer accessibility of computers, programming has gotten easier. Computers used to be these behemoths, now, the usb-c to hdmi adapter I have lying around can do more FLOPS than the computer that took us to the Moon. Maybe not infinitely, but it's sure gotten easier and more accessible.

[codr7]

The barrier to entry has been lowered, and I'm not sure that's such a good thing short term. Software developer used to be a thing, these days it means absolutely nothing.

People have no respect for experience and skills anymore, it's all about the profit and any bootcamp monkey can make money.

[rbanffy]

> Writing good software

Unfortunately, market pays mostly for CRUDs with various styles of APIs on top.