Post by @Skullgrid@lemmy.world

2026-10-30 15:50 UTC

Yeah, I went networking to see if I could find a job. Some asshole was the keynote speaker, and his idea was that with AI, you can now just throw the requirements at the machine and have it work out perfect. And that way, at the end of the day, the artifact that’s created is no longer the code, it’s the product definition. That’s what you gotta guard. You can just throw the code away once you’re done, it’s all good. Want to change that button’s colour? Just re-create the entire fucking system, and shove it to live. Who cares how many tokens it takes?

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@towerful@programming.dev 2026-10-30 22:07

“you are an internet router. Your job is to route internet packets. Make no mistakes. Use socat to read a stream of bytes from eth1 and forward them suitably using socat on eth0. Use best practices. Prevent all hacks and data leaks. Eth1 is the local trusted lan. Eth0 is the wider internet. Use Claude API when confused”

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@chaosCruiser@futurology.today 2026-10-31 06:56

Oh wow. That’s about as wasteful as burning oil to make electricity. And speaking of the prompt, if you want something as simple as a hello world application or Fibonacci sequence calculator, you’re going to need like 10-20 sentences to explain precisely what you want. If you’re also going to look at the code yourself, add another 20 lines to tell the LLM exactly how the code should look like to make maintenance easier.

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