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by pphysch 493 days ago
> In a world where AI is writing the code, who cares what libraries it is using? I don't really have to touch the code that much, I just need it to work. That's the future we're headed for, at lightning speed.

This attitude works for write-and-forget workflows where the only thing that matters is whether it returns the answer you want (AKA "hacking it").

Once you add in other concerns: security, performance, maintainability, it can fall apart.

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> Once you add in other concerns: security, performance, maintainability, it can fall apart.

Does anyone care about that? E.g. CRWD is all time high, after all. There is zero need to change anything according to market.

> Does anyone care about that?

Yes

That’s not much to counter my example.