We need down-vote buttons for slop like this on HN. How can this reach the frontpage?
Since you are reading, here a story of mine. Both me and a friend build a SaaS product using ClaudeCode. We both have 15+ year experience in software (he more in dotNET me more in FLOSS).
He just accepted everything it came up with (pretty much vibe). I was suuuuuuper careful about what I accepted and spend the first weeks programming a lot myself.
His stack for JS was HUUUGE. Several different technologies were used. Mine JS stack was: only use Alpine.js (and avoid JS as much as possible).
His backend stack was equally huge: lots of native/binary OS dependencies bundled in Docker. Mine was 13MB of libs on top of the JVM.
Being one year in I run 3500 tests in 20secs. App boots under 3secs.
He considers rewriting it.
The art(isanal) is still important. Sure it's different now. But MY GOD what a difference a bit of oversight/leadership/tech-vision can make.
I'm glad frontend design skills have moved us away from the generic, inoffensive font families of yesteryear towards the likes of Space Grotesk and a smattering of IBM Plex Mono in places ill-suited to monospace families.
What changed, I wonder? ;-/
It's like the author prompted, "write me a big article on what is and isn't a commodity with AI, and make it confusing"
Such pre-LLM thinking, can't believe it's still a thing.
Since you are reading, here a story of mine. Both me and a friend build a SaaS product using ClaudeCode. We both have 15+ year experience in software (he more in dotNET me more in FLOSS).
He just accepted everything it came up with (pretty much vibe). I was suuuuuuper careful about what I accepted and spend the first weeks programming a lot myself.
His stack for JS was HUUUGE. Several different technologies were used. Mine JS stack was: only use Alpine.js (and avoid JS as much as possible).
His backend stack was equally huge: lots of native/binary OS dependencies bundled in Docker. Mine was 13MB of libs on top of the JVM.
Being one year in I run 3500 tests in 20secs. App boots under 3secs.
He considers rewriting it.
The art(isanal) is still important. Sure it's different now. But MY GOD what a difference a bit of oversight/leadership/tech-vision can make.
LinkedIn introduced a "Seems like AI slop" reporting option, perhaps we should consider asking for one for HN too?
Can an accountant make a CRM in a weekend? Sure.
Will it be there next week? Maybe, probably not.
Building software was never, not even once, about writing code. That’s easy, literally anyone can do it.
It’s about building something that lasts beyond needing to be completely refactored.
Now this one. Lol