When you write 10x the code, you have to maintain 10x the code, and that is 100x the work.
My goal is always to keep everything as simple and barebones as possible. Our entire company runs on like 10,000 lines of Python code I’ve written lol. I know exactly what ever line does, and have open source libraries I maintain for any glue related code so it can be reviewed by other users of that software.
I had a junior start last month and within like 2 weeks they already knew where everything lived and could see the overall structure just from reading all the code.
Love how incredibly obvious it is to everyone except management that this whole AI thing is going to blow up in everyone’s faces
No we can’t pay you a raise for a third year in a row.
Here you go, half of your salary in LLM tokens, why aren’t you more enthusiastic about AI?
Management and those hoards of bloggers on hacker news telling up how they are 10Xing their workflows.
When you write 10x the code, you have to maintain 10x the code, and that is 100x the work.
My goal is always to keep everything as simple and barebones as possible. Our entire company runs on like 10,000 lines of Python code I’ve written lol. I know exactly what ever line does, and have open source libraries I maintain for any glue related code so it can be reviewed by other users of that software.
Yeah, you can’t beat concise code
It’s so much easier to get someone spun up too.
I had a junior start last month and within like 2 weeks they already knew where everything lived and could see the overall structure just from reading all the code.
Some of the quotes from the article even imply that the providers themselves understand this.