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tante
@tante.cc

"Software is no longer seen as an asset, as something to care for, to maybe even take pride in. It’s a throw-away product. Like a napkin. Just get one quick, wipe your mouth and throw it away. Like a novelty t-shirt." Software as Fast Fashion

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jl
@ltkmr.bsky.social

From my perspective AI is turbocharging an old problem, that is that business owners do not want maintainable software, they want „results“. Ownership misunderstood as „no license fees“. New smart layers of abstraction gave opportunities to do it right, yet „faster“ „results“ were preferred.

jl
@ltkmr.bsky.social

Most of the time the toolchains grew faster than our work- and engineering-ethics and we seem to approach a new maximum of disparity.

Vincent
@zell2036.com

Agreed; it seems like there's always more people in the market for shiny new un-purposed tech than people actually trying to design solutions to problems.

jl
@ltkmr.bsky.social

Yes, but even a bit more twisted. As an example; when object oriented programming emerged in some cases it led to beautiful, reusable code. We didn’t use this though to make things right, we used it to develop faster. Java was a purposeful idea that was often used without good purpose.