Comment by curt15
17 hours ago
> Imagine a programmer telling their boss it’s not about working software it’s about the journey of writing the code. Good luck getting hired.
Imagine the next version of Claude Code or Codex no longer hands you source code and instead turns a natural language prompt directly into a compiled binary that passes the test suite. Would this programmer's boss ship the binary straight to production and dispense with the company's git repo altogether? After all, the goal at the end of the day is shipped software that produces value, not human-readable source code.
Responding to GP, I know people that de facto work this way and absolutely hire on those rare occasions they are looking. They create substantial value as a byproduct of their quest for beauty in complexity.
On the git thing, it turns out LLMs write better systems when constrained into the same patterns that make human teams write better systems - git and the chance to safely experiment en route to the ultimate solution being key. As well as modularity, iterative design and implementation, tests, documents, etc.
Absolutely. Managing source code and builds is tremendous overhead that most companies would get rid of in a heartbeat.