ben on Nostr: more often than not, the best code you write is the code that was never written. more ...

more often than not, the best code you write is the code that was never written. more directly, the hard part of software is building the right thing. most things we build are obsolete and never reach product market fit. therefore i claim that it’s better to just have ai write the mvp, instantly. have ai iterate on it as you navigate the market fit. the edge real software engineers have is giving the ai constraints. but the implementation literally does not matter and i firmly stand by that. mean time to remediation is what matters, and again ai accelerates this. these are my opinions and a decade ago my opinions were arguing semantics, code is craft, etc. my opinions have changed. new shit has come to light. i dont hand chisel code anymore. good on you if you wish to keep up the hobby, i look back on it fondly.