[weego]

My hot take is that the entire history of the personal internet was inefficient, badly built and chaotic and it was much more fun to exist in.

I really don't see a problem if it breathes life into the internet for non-technical people to be creative and interesting again. Wordpress etc gave people a cheap voice, but at the cost of immovable guard-rails.

And even at a small business level, most stuff people build get's torn down by the next person or next agency 6, 12, 18 months later anyway so why care about engineering rigour (this point does not extend to security concerns) in the front end when you can spin up and tear down something in a day or two for incredibly cheap.

I'm honestly tired at the pearl-clutching when we ourselves have helped shape an industry that constantly raises the bar to entry with unnecessary techincal complexity and bloat. Ever built a brochureware site in react or similar? you've done exactly what the this guy did, you just did it with pure intent rather than an AI doing it

[titanomachy]

Yeah almost all code is just good enough to get the job done. Exceptions include (some) open-source codebases, a few key projects at leading tech companies, and probably the work of obscure geniuses at random companies that nobody else will ever see.

[MrSkelter]

You are completely right.

I have decades of experience building products working with everyone from remote teams I have never met to FAANG employees in Silicon Valley.

Pretty much every product and site is a combination of good work, hacks and hope. When people attack LLMs on the basis of quality I don’t know what they think the standard is?

Outside 8-bit games which shipped in cassette and the Apollo flight computer most modern code only works because it’s been consistently updated and fixed in flight. It’s sad but true.

LLMs write code the way they write English. It’s not pretty but is of much higher general quality than the human average.