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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
“Code is a liability (not an asset)”
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/
Maybe if Cory says it people will listen
> Meanwhile, "software engineering" is a discipline that subsumes "writing code," but with a focus on the long-term operations of the system the code is part of
Writing code forces you to pay some attention to the practice of software engineering. Delegating that to a statistical model lets your software engineering skills degrade until they have the substance and integrity of a wet fart