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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀
@thomasfuchs.at

IMO the reason why people yearn for tools that generate code is that programming is broken—everything now is giant layer cakes of huge, complex and intransparent frameworks designed by and for large teams in giant tech companies.

Amyville Hoyrror@amyhoy.bsky.social

i'm actually not averse to the idea of computers generating code. after all, that's what all scripting languages etc. do, and all visual programming tools do, and all plain-language programming languages do i could see there being actually smart tools for this but this is not where we're at

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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀
@thomasfuchs.at

The same tech companies that flooded programming with overly complex tools, endless toolchains, new programming languages du jour every few years, required backwards-compatibility breaking updates and mandatory design overhauls are now selling you “AI” to generate code for the mess they made.

Zachary Powell 🥑
@devwithzachary.bsky.social

And it’s not even like it makes the user experience better, the amount of times what should be a simple CLI tool is some node project that requires a million dependencies just to do a simple task kills me…. Just give me a binary to run please 🥲

Crip Dyke
@cripdyke.bsky.social

Hell, back in my brief stint as a coder, I wrote my own tools that allowed me to hit a hotkey, then fill in 10-12 argument prompts, and then then get 50 or so lines of code. Way faster than writing by hand, even if only a rudimentary version of what we have now. But the point is codegen is not new.