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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:
Software has been "built by machines, directed by people" for decades.
That's what compilers and linkers do, that's what uncountable lines of Bash and endless CI/CD pipelines are – machines building software, directed by people.
And for decades, the bottleneck has not been churning out code. It was code review, it was quality control, it was bug fixing. AI slop makes that *worse*, not better:
https://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/89367GitLab, and the rest of the industry, is solving for the wrong problem.