> my LLM driven assistant builds and maintains my apps

Remember when everyone was talking about treating computers as cattle rather than pets?

This seems like a weird inversion. Programs as pets instead of cattle. Toxoplasmosis, ahoy...

Xirdus 7 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Cattle can do complex tasks too. Including managing other cattle.

Think of all those bad sci-fi movies where aliens take over Earth, enslave all humans and treat them like cattle. Very competent cattle that's put in charge of local governments, scientific research etc. but very much still cattle where individuals are entirely interchangeable and killing them is just everyday work. This is me and AI assistants. (I'm the aliens.)

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toomuchtodo 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If the code works good enough, it works good enough. If good enough is insufficient for success criteria, you’ll have to trade app evolution velocity and flexibility for more determinism via more human effort (“artisanal hand crafted”), evaluated on a per use case basis. “Does this software have to be good? How good? Have I hit diminishing returns yet?”

Pros and cons to code being cheap to generate now, it’s always about tradeoffs. I don’t want to build cars, I want to drive cars.

	▲	Terr_ an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Only in the sense that your build-a-car will be "good enough" as long as you never find out why your palms are always itchy, and you never press the brake so hard it stops working, and nobody determines which of the cars started the fireball during the accident. People suck at "good enough". All major engineering disasters were something "good enough" for somebody. People burn down their houses with "good enough" electrical work.