It's been so weird to watch over the decades as team sizes, budgets, and timelines have exploded even as we've abandoned once-normal things like native GUI applications as too hard in favor of "more efficient" webshit... even as the aforementioned stuff with growing team sizes, budgets, and timelines have happened.

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nextaccountic 3 hours ago | parent [-]

What's weird is that AI is supposed to make development easy enough that native applications are just as fast to build than web apps

Somehow in this timeline AI can only be used to make things worse and sloppier

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ThunderSizzle 17 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

The engineers running the AI have to still be good.

AI code that isn't properly guided and controlled by an engineer is just as sloppy as the human behind it.

AI is an accelerate for programming, but some developers create horrible code before AI, snd AI won't change that. It just lets them do it faster.

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throwaway85825 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Software used to be built for users, now it just has to look good as a screenshot.

	▲	mapontosevenths 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The user is not the customer. Microsoft builds software for the enterprise now, so Windows 11 is full of new features for the enterprise and has nothing for the User. They forgot that Enterprises are made out of Users.
	▲	assaddayinh 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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mulmen 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It’s also weird that the productivity increases of AI lead to layoffs instead of hiring. If we can do more with AI why are companies scrambling to maintain the current output? Does leadership lack the vision of what to do with the additional productivity?