Comment by erminpour
18 hours ago
Maybe it's just me, but "How much we ship per engineer" doesn't seem like the correct metric to track.
If that's the benchmark, developers are incentivized to produce over-engineered and bloated code.
18 hours ago
Maybe it's just me, but "How much we ship per engineer" doesn't seem like the correct metric to track.
If that's the benchmark, developers are incentivized to produce over-engineered and bloated code.
Categorically, if you ship more bugs per engineer, you fix more bugs per engineer.
Won't there also be a point were you're shipping so fast that that in itself deteriorates UX? What if a page literally changes every time I reload? What if it changes mid-checkout process and the deal I agreed to 5 seconds ago does not exist anymore?!
You already see this pre-ai with apps asking me to update everytime i open the damn thing…
I have come to realize that code (and I think possibly productivity in general) being expensive was always a feature. I am sure that a few great ideas did get lost to obscurity due to lack of access to resources to build them out. However, we now have an absolute deluge of complete and utter shite.
We didn't need LLMs to come up with the genius idea of making every desktop app a web browser.
Software quality was in terminal decline already, the only hope is that LLMs get good enough to dig outselves out of the several miles deep hole that has been dug.
the root problem isn't the code though; its the business and how its run that affects it, llms will just make it amplified imo
It was trained on that declining quality. Now it's just digging faster.
Agreed, for the individual LLMs can be powerful to let less technical folks build and customize their software - at an org level I reckon we'll start seeing more sinking ships as that bottleneck was actually helpful at limiting the flow of lackluster features to prod.
Yep and there is no real demand for slop engineers are producing anyways.
yeah shipping widgets and shit, not real features