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Re:Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light... by brink on Monday December 16, 2024 @04:59PM (#42435918)
Comparing an LLM to an industrial textile machine is laughable, because one is consistent and reliable while the other is not.
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Re:Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light... by palata on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @06:32AM (#42440517)
It's laughable only if you think that the only reasonable metric is "consistent and reliable".

The parent says "it typically doesn't matter that the product is worse if it's cheap enough". And that seems valid to me: the average quality of software today seems to be worse than 10 years ago. We do worse but cheaper.

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Re:Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light... by brink on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @04:01PM (#42445276)
> And that seems valid to me: the average quality of software today seems to be worse than 10 years ago.

You don't remember Windows Vista? Windows ME?

I think you have that view because of survivor's bias. Only the good old software is still around today. There was plenty of garbage that barely worked being shipped 10 years ago.

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Re:Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light... by palata on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @04:12PM (#42445361)
Let's think about this: smartphones are orders of magnitude faster today than they were 10 years ago, and yet websites load slower on average.
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