Tell me you don’t understand software without literally using those words!!!

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/36071801

This author trieds hard to do a pragmatic view. He does not mention ethical or ecological concerns (which should matter far more and subject to legal regulation IMO).

Instead, he focuses on the quality topic. His thinking is that companies are doing now a kind of quality arbitrage: Companies can make low-quality code at far cheaper costs, and sellthe result still at human-made prices. Which will only work for so long, he thinks: Customers will demand lower prices. (Easy to imagine a quality downward spiral.)

Which invokes the question: What has happened that people accept lower and lower quality? Is new software nowadays still really useful?

  • gian @lemmy.grys.itEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    Hobby project coding is solved.

    Not if you want to build something more complex than the usual todo manager or likewyse simple software in my experience.
    And even in this case it output just something taken from examples around the internet, so it is not writing code, it is just better at finding the (hopefully) better examples.