Comment by PeterStuer
5 days ago
A traditional digital stack's lifecycle is:
1. The previous gen has become bloated and complex because it widened it's scope to cover every possible miche scenario and got infiltrated by 'expert' language and framework specialists that went on an atrotecture binge.
2. As a result a new stack is born, much simpler, back to basics, than the poorly aged encumbant. It doesn't cover every niche, but it does a few newly popular things realy easy and well, and rises on the coattails of this new thing as the default envoronment for it.
3. Over time the new stack ages just as poorly as the old stack for all the same reasons. So the cycle repeats.
I do not see this changing with ai-assisted coding, as context enrichment is getting better allowing a full stack specification in post training.
> It doesn't cover every niche, but it does a few newly popular things realy easy and well, and rises on the coattails of this new thing as the default envoronment for it
How will it ever rise on the coattails of anything if it isn't in the AI training data so no one is ever incentivized to use it to begin with?
AI legible documentation. If you optimize for a "1-pager" doc you can add to the context of an LLM and that is all it needs to know to use your package or framework ... people will use it if has some kind non-technical advantage. deepwiki.com is sorta an attempt to automate doing something like this.