Comment by nadam

I was just thinking about what AI assisted coding brings to the design discussion, especially as AI become more and more powerful and we rely on it more and more. You still want to make things modular and easy to understand so that AI understands it easily and the needed info to modify a module can fit in a relatively small context window, but the difference is that it is very easy to make large scale measurement about which code style is understood better by an LLM, so maybe some of these debates will be decided relatively objectively!

For the topic: the discussed topics are relatively trivial surface level stuff, mostly I agree with POSD, but these will be handled by AI anyway. I guess humans will use the spare brain capacity to deal with the real deep design questions (for a while).