Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   HalvarFlake (halvarflake@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Jan-2026 18:30:57 JST HalvarFlake

   LLMs are reshaping software dev. I don't buy "the end of software dev": Project ambition will grow dramatically.

   Ancient Egyptians could build the Pyramids but not the Empire State Building.

   Pre-LLM software will be viewed like we view the Pyramids.

   • Embed this notice
     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Jan-2026 18:30:56 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

     in reply to

     @HalvarFlake this is a funny statement, considering how incapable the societies we live in (UK & US... as far as i know) of large public works projects like the Pyramids

     i feel like you'll be right, but not in the sense you're putting in here

   • Embed this notice
     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jan-2026 06:50:29 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

     in reply to

     @implr @HalvarFlake these people are making my skillset _more_ valuable (and i already have more demand than i could ever physically do)

   • Embed this notice
     implr (implr@social.hackerspace.pl)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jan-2026 06:50:33 JST implr

     in reply to

     • ✧✦Catherine✦✧

     @whitequark @HalvarFlake while doomscrolling the musk website earlier i saw a vibecoder bro's take that went something like:
     > in the future there'll be no libraries, don't need them when claude will just generate a quicksort or whatever within your project

     and i think this is quite revealing. llms will let you vibe a medium-sized (within context size) project, but none of that code will be reusable, or reuse other code. you won't extract and publish bits of it standalone because it's all slop.

   • Embed this notice
     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jan-2026 10:04:30 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

     in reply to

     • implr

     @implr @HalvarFlake at a small, small cost of destroying much of the field, sure, but i personally expect to retire lavishly