Comment by fhd2
5 days ago
Yes, that's exactly how I meant it. I might _rarely_ peruse some code if I'm really curious about it, but by and large I just trust the developers of the software I use and don't really care how it works. I care about what it does.
As a developer of software I often have to care because it matters and so I read the code.
Source code is often written for other humans first and foremost.
I've had to dig into node modules to try to debug code from a closed source library that we depended on.
I'd much rather wade through AI slop than minified code, which may have previously been AI slop.
Minified code is not for humans, it may as well been bytecode.
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Both can be equally bad. Especially if you could get the source of the minified dependency and find that it is also slop.
What a world when we’re playing Would you rather with people’s property and information.