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by plaguuuuuu
64 days ago
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I've recently had the interesting experience of working on a Clean Architecture project for the first time. Pre and post-LLM adoption. It has been... difficult. Services/modules organised by infrastructural layer rather than by feature. A mediator pattern abstracted away the handling of commands. Just in case one day you needed CreateFooCommand to be executed by a different handler, or something, I dunno. It was so hard to figure out how to navigate everything. And it felt like the entire tradeoff was for the purpose of stopping smoothbrains from adding the ORM to an API endpoint - but with the cost of this crushing accidental complexity that made it hard for everyone to hold everything in their heads, not just for me but also for the smart guys on the team. It turns out that the LLMs also performed extremely poorly. All the heavy abstractions were too hard for them (not to mention most of the developers). I knew I had no chance of shifting things away from that paradigm. But as luck would have it... we started basically vibe-rewriting it from scratch without bullshit enterprisey crap and its (a) dead simple (b) has most of the features after one month (c) even though the code is questionable, inelegant AI slop, with nearly zero regard to proper architectural design, it's way easier to deal with than before I've never felt so vindicated. |
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That is actually true to the original CA as far as I am aware. The "veritcal slices" style of development came after.
> with the cost of this crushing accidental complexity that made it hard for everyone to hold everything in their heads, not just for me but also for the smart guys on the team.
What? You don't like editing 50 files every time a new column is added to a DB table?
> And it felt like the entire tradeoff was for the purpose of stopping smoothbrains from adding the ORM to an API endpoint
There is nothing wrong with this, and I will die on this hill. The entire purpose of CA was for people to make money off book sales, lectures, and consulting. Notice how every single on of the people involved with promoting CA have absolutely nothing noteworthy to their names. In fact, you might be surprised who was one of the consultants on a major failure of a solution... *cough cough*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Comprehensive_Compens...