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Now listen here you little shit (media.piefed.social)

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[–] Fatal@piefed.social 13 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Guys, you can laugh at a joke. The AI doesn't win just because someone upvoted a meme. Maintainability of codebases has been a joke for longer than LLMs have been around because there's a lot of truth to it.

Even the most well intentioned design has weaknesses that we didn't see coming. Some of its abstractions are wrong. There are changes to the requirements and feature set that they didn't anticipate. They over engineered other parts that make them more difficult to navigate for no maintainability gain. That's ok. Perfectly maintainable code requires us to be psychics and none of us are.

[–] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago

I actually laughed out loud at this meme.