Comment by true2octave
11 hours ago
High quality code is a thing from the past
What matters is high quality specifications including test cases
11 hours ago
High quality code is a thing from the past
What matters is high quality specifications including test cases
> High quality code is a thing from the past
Says the person who will find themselves unable to change the software even in the slightest way without having to large refactors across everything at the same time.
High quality code matters more than ever, would be my argument. The second you let the LLM sneak in some quick hack/patch instead of correctly solving the problem, is the second you invite it to continue doing that always.
I dunno...
I have a feeling this will only supercharge the long established industry practice of new devs or engineering leadership getting recruited and immediately criticising the entire existing tech stack, and pushing for (and often succeeding) a ground up rewrite in language/framework de jour. This is hilariously common in web work, particularly front end web work. I suspect there are industry sectors that're well protected from this, I doubt people writing firmware for fuel injection and engine management systems suffer too much from this, the Javascript/Nodejs/NPM scourge _probably_ hasn't hit the PowerPC or 68K embedded device programming workflow. Yet...
"high quality specifications" have _always_ been a thing that matters.
In my mind, it's somewhat orthogonal to code quality.
Waterfall has always been about "high quality specifications" written by people who never see any code, much less write it. Agile make specs and code quality somewhat related, but in at least some ways probably drives lower quality code in the pursuit of meeting sprint deadlines and producing testable artefacts at the expense of thoroughness/correctness/quality.