News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Programming Still Sucks. Parent comment

Re:Programming Still Sucks by 01100011 on Thursday May 07, 2026 @01:50AM (#48045875)
There are way too many people in tech who did it solely for the money. People worry about AI slop but these poseurs have been cranking out garbage for decades. A lot of my career has been cleaning up the mess they've made.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Programming Still Sucks by black3r on Thursday May 07, 2026 @03:18AM (#48046416)
The difference with AI is that now generating AI slop is much faster than carefully crafted code. So companies began to prefer AI slop.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Programming Still Sucks by rustystump on Thursday May 07, 2026 @03:42AM (#48046576)
Their rollin out the agentic swarm soon… god help me.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Programming Still Sucks by lelanthran on Thursday May 07, 2026 @04:50AM (#48047032)
> There are way too many people in tech who did it solely for the money.

Well perhaps now, when AI halves your salary, and then halves it again, and the only people left are those who do it for some reason other than a salary, you'll be happier?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Programming Still Sucks by 01100011 on Thursday May 07, 2026 @10:23AM (#48049867)
If AI did that to my salary it would be a nice wage for a job where I sit in a chair all day so yeah.
[ Parent | on HN ]