Comment by 20k

If coding is a solved problem, where are all the high quality, open source PRs is what I want to know. Where's the flood of improvements for Curl? SFML? SDL? Godot? Linux? ImGui? VLC? Firefox? GNU tools? Rust? GCC? LLVM? Why can I find *no* evidence of this?

If you look at the open source space and review the contribution of AI in it, you'd think that AI is barely able to create functional code and the people who peddle it are solely slop authors. More than that, you might think it barely exists, because there's simply vanishingly few PRs landing which are AI generated. It seems in open source projects, for some reason, AI is barely able to produce any useful code at all

But apparently for closed source proprietary code its like magic and you don't need to write any code anymore and it is a solved problem. Mhm. Totally willing to believe that

My suspicion is that a lot of proprietary software engineering has become purely performative. It no longer matters if the resulting product works, or has any quality, because its not about that. The system is being burnt down to extract wealth from it instead, as we create the illusion of software development as these companies are asset stripped. Line Must Go Up. There's no simply incentive to make a real product anymore, when the valuation of our economy and management compensation is built solely on hype instead of results