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   Entikan (cupz@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 00:51:30 JST Entikan

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs Well said. If anything we need a lot -less- code and more clever solutions.

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     Shafik Yaghmour (shafik@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 00:52:08 JST Shafik Yaghmour

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs

     apropos

     https://cybre.club/notes/a7ynm715negagbtb

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     Laura (landelare@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 00:59:36 JST Laura

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs I'm not disagreeing, but I don't think I got the intended meaning of "there is no software scarcity". I thought there was a lot of demand, which is why managers always jump on *anything* that promises more+cheaper, and often end up being essentially legally scammed one way or another. What did you mean by it?

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     grepe (grepe@ieji.de)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 02:16:16 JST grepe

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs thank you for posting this!

     you expressed my feelings about the current push for coding assistants with better words and clarity than i could.

     one more problematic thing is that this technology mimics human interaction so well that even many smart people i know genuinely believe it is more than just technology. they believe "AI" actually can come up with original solutions and be creative in solving complex problems... or, when confronted with the reality of it being just an algorithm, even think less of human creativity itself.

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     Ted Aronson (ted@social.foolish.computer)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 03:00:16 JST Ted Aronson

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs I generally agree with you, but I don't think I ever expected to see OOP framed as a tool for the suits to get us to work faster.

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     @990000@mstdn.social (990000@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 03:01:20 JST @990000@mstdn.social

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs this is one of the things that pissed me off about the Paul Ford op-ed. Like, he wants software dev to be so easy that it takes no effort. But even if that were to be possible, the amount of shit that would be produced would be exponentially worse.

     All these people think that making all the difficult things easy will automatically elevate everything, but that’s not really the main and foremost thing happening with AI and they’re turning a blind eye on so much bad stuff.

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     jacobgorm (jacobgorm@sigmoid.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 03:28:28 JST jacobgorm

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs What is new is that it suddenly started working.

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     Chris Petrilli (petrillic@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 05:45:37 JST Chris Petrilli

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs "all you have to do is meticulously and accurately describe 100% of your requirements and restrictions"

     Sure, seems great Jan.

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     joel b (skotchygut@social.seattle.wa.us)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 05:59:01 JST joel b

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Where are all the one-person companies selling amazing new products? Why don't the LLM companies use their own product to put everyone else out of business? It's because they would rather sell the shovels than try to mine themselves of course.

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     grepe (grepe@ieji.de)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 11:55:27 JST grepe

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs actually - no. i understand where that assumption comes from but it is very wrong. in my case one of them is a professor on renowned university doing academic research. and, surprisingly, being prone to believing pseudoscience, being religious or racist is not connected in my experience... this is anecdotal but i've known medical doctors who were into homeopathy (former flat mate), religious astrophysicists (colleague), racist atheists (class mates) and very rational and inclusive priests (jesuit)...

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     Elric (elricofmelnibone@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 23:17:04 JST Elric

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs I don't think this is the entire story. Tools and techniques like RAD/OOP/Expert Systems/4GL can definitely save time when used correctly. Abstracting or automating boring parts leaves more time and headspace for the complicated parts -- which are typically the business rules and the non-functionals.

     The way LLMs generate code is the exact opposite: they make it harder to focus on the hard parts by trying to generate "everything".