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by gwd
311 days ago
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> How do we reconcile these two comments? I think that's a core question of the industry right now. The question is, for those people who feel like things are going faster, what's the actual velocity? A month ago I showed it a basic query of one resource I'd rewritten to use a "query builder" API. Then I showed it the "legacy" query of another resource, and asked it to do something similar. It managed to get very close on the first try, and with only a few more hours of tweaking and testing managed to get a reasonably thorough test suite to pass. I'm sure that took half the time it would have taken me to do it by hand. Fast forward to this week, when I ran across some strange bugs, and had to spend a day or two digging into the code again, and do some major revision. Pretty sure those bugs wouldn't have happened if I'd written the code myself; but even though I reviewed the code, they went under the radar, because I hadn't really understood the code as well as I thought I had. So was I faster overall? Or did I just offload some of the work to myself at an unpredictable point in the future? I don't "vibe code": I keep tight reign on the tool and review everything it's doing. |
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If programmers really did get 3x faster. Why has software not improved any faster than it always has been.