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It's also just patently false. Taste is not all that is left. Are software engineers really so full of hubris that they thought coding is all that there is to making a product?
Taste Is All That's Left
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#52The Rick Rubin meme
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Speaks more to the myopia of developers than anything else.
Most people in Comp Sci don’t read Kant unless they have a concentration in Artificial Intelligence, so I’m not blaming them.
I'm not only referring to that, I'm also referring to a reductionist view when I read "Taste Is All That's Left" - which is a statement that has been mindlessly parroted around as of late.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most people in Comp Sci don’t read Kant unless they have a concentration in Artificial Intelligence, so I’m not blaming them.
I'm not only referring to that, I'm also referring to a reductionist view when I read "Taste Is All That's Left" - which is a statement that has been mindlessly parroted around as of late.
Yeah even if Dev Schumer is some absurd hype artist he was correct to note that it is judgement and taste, not taste alone, that is most key now. Although he attributed it to the models own subjectivity.
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#55Everybody thinks they have good taste don’t they. How convenient it is that we’re all so awesome according to the one metric that can’t be measured
yeah the skill du jour keeps shifting. Everyone wants to say they have something the llm doesn't. The more subjective and ill-defined that "something" is the better.
> Everyone wants to say they have something the llm doesn't.
LLM can't waste weeks debating stacks and tools and then recast the problem as a new framework that needs to exist.
*Check mate*
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Hemingway wrote the same way. Here's a famous example from the Old Man and the Sea: Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready. The reason is simple: Short sentences are punchy. They hit hard, carry emotional weight. P.S. As evident, clearly I'm having some fun with this, but the point stands.
Correction:
> The reason is simple. Short sentences are punchy. They hit hard. But they carry emotional weight.
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#57Hard disagree on "Good enough", most things are mediocre at best. Despite the massive AI boom I can at best count on one hand "fresh" products made with AI that are meaningful in day-to-day usage. Not to mention most of them seem to be targeting AI-space itself instead of bridging some actual business use case. Just look at all the products on ShowHN, you can "tell" a vibed product in seconds.
Mediocre is good enough, that's what it means.
Mediocre literally means middling, which may or may not be good enough depending on requirements.
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It's also just patently false. Taste is not all that is left. Are software engineers really so full of hubris that they thought coding is all that there is to making a product?
What is left? The second-best architecture for any given technical problem is, in the majority of cases, still good enough.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hemingway wrote the same way. Here's a famous example from the Old Man and the Sea: Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready. The reason is simple: Short sentences are punchy. They hit hard, carry emotional weight. P.S. As evident, clearly I'm having some fun with this, but the point stands.
Short sentences were never the danger, or what the GP is referring to.
But understanding the GP was never the danger. Incomprehensible posts on HN have held steady for decades. What held the flood back was that producing crap was all the users could muster. Bad comments took seconds to write. The ten percent was throttled by lack of use of tools like LLMs to help refine the words into something that could be understood.
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#60People will always want something to gatekeep their chosen field. Code went away, so now people need to be able to say if the machine wrote good code. In a year or two people won't be able to use that because the code will be measurably better than something a typical dev would write, and in five years it'll be better than anything anyone could write.
Then we'll need to accept that coding is better when it's done by computers, and we'll start telling everyone it's actually the prompts and context that steered the machine that really matter.