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Hot take: instead of making everything slop, LLMs will create a bimodal distribution in quality. On one side, codebases of an extremely high quality, previously impractical to attain. On the other, a level of code quality so low that we'll need to invent a new term for it. My money's on "hyperslop"

The metaphor I might reach for is that of a fountain code. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountai...

what kinda rules!

Haha! Joke's on them, the codebase was already unmaintainable slop!

i think my take on that is claiming your tui tool is more akin to a ‘game engine’ yet you have 11ms frametimes (~90fps) for what you would think should be an easy win

ya this is the part i’ve been thinking a lot about, all the “damn imagine the QOL/UX boost from that tantalizing 3 day rabbit hole” are maybe an hour to critique and review the diff stuff you’d just never take on without infinite time that can be robustly tested is so tractable now

This is the kind of thing I've been doing and haven't really talked about it so people don't crucify me

everybody. just takes time. one thing I'm interested in, which I see people pointing out more and more, is that smaller teams can adapt to this much quicker. maybe bigcos are going to have give teams more autonomy if they want to see adoption

Yeah telling Claude code to find and consolidate and make neat a project that is spread over multiple .r, rmd, qmd and weave files into one qmd file is now pretty standard for me.