Comment by Quarrelsome
11 hours ago
I worry that software and the industry is more resistent then we might imagine. Consider the insanity of Elon Musk's arbitrary cuts to twitter and the resilience of that platform in the years that followed.
It might simply be the case that buying more tokens and kicking the code enough times might give a "good enough" result for the industry to continue. I don't want to believe this but the discussion of how awful the openssl code base is seems to suggest that might be the case. You just need to automate the process of caution we have around it. We should all be hoping that Gastown fails but I feel like it might succeed.
This case study makes me even think that AI will turn out to be a net positive for overall code quality.
> Consider the insanity of Elon Musk's arbitrary cuts to twitter and the resilience of that platform in the years that followed.
Given the resilience, how can the cuts have been "insanity"?
The insanity is how he enacted them. Like the idea that everyone should come to his office with print outs of the code they've written, or that everyone has to come into HQ to do some all-nighters. Just an absurd hunger-games attitude to his workforce, full of horrific coginative biases and discrimination against some of the workforce (e.g. against those with young children or those with disabilities who might be less able to commit to all-nighters).