Comment by LPisGood
6 hours ago
Software has, with precious few exceptions, almost always been held together with duct tape and a prayer.
6 hours ago
Software has, with precious few exceptions, almost always been held together with duct tape and a prayer.
Yes I know. There's no nuance on HN. I was using it as a metaphor to show that this person has no idea what they're doing. Which is a huge difference from someone deeply knowing the codebase and tech it'll sit on to make an educated tradeoff. I've seen the duct-tape in real codebases and I knew the engineers who put it there and why. That doesn't exist when your senior engineer is a nebulous "idea of an engineer" that resets its memory every few hours.
The issue is not duct tape, the issue is having someone you can rely on to know what to tape.
People in the know are not suggesting engineers are no longer needed, but that they need to adapt.
Please explain this "adapting". The LLM sellers' holygrail is * you just need to crank our model bro *. With this mindset, there is no adaptation needed, save a couple of weeks of getting up to speed with nuances of using the models, the / commands and integration of their APIs into your workflow.
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