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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
esparta@ruby.social ("Esparta :ruby:") wrote:

Why We Can't Have Nice Software, by Andrew Kelley
https://andrewkelley.me/post/why-we-cant-have-nice-software.html

In this 2024 article, Andrew (Zig creator) takes a lot of excellent points and all of them pass the time challenge. A sample:

> LLMs are a way to make software take orders of magnitude more computational power, electricity, and human labor, while delivering a product whose extremely volatile quality is impossible to assure. The work will never be completed; it will only create the need for ever more labor.