@yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place
2026-05-02 07:00 UTC
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@kwramm@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-05-02 07:44
@yiningkarlli kinda ignores that the expense with code isn't writing it. It's maintaining and adapting it in 6 ...12 .. 24 months from now. As an AI bro you could say "whatever, screw refactoring, we just have AI write it all from scratch", but that doesn't sound super scalable either
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@hopeless@mas.to 2026-05-02 10:12
@yiningkarlli I just want to ask the author of the quoted X post... who has quite a cursed name... WTF happens after a "decade" he mentions in the last line?
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@w0utert@social.treehouse.systems 2026-05-02 13:50
@yiningkarlli It’s a silly argument in more ways than just that, starting from the assumption that the ‘no engineer’ exists because ‘writing code is expensive’. It’s not the writing code part that is expensive, it’s everything around it, the code itself is just the substrate and medium. People who claim (or pretend) otherwise have no idea why software is expensive. I probably haven’t written more than a few 100K LOC in my ~20 of being a software engineer (and over time indeed from experience becoming something like a ‘no engineer’), and I can assure the ‘writing code’ part was almost never the limiting factor 🤷🏻♂️