Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage
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Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage
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pelasaco · · focus · HN ↗
At least against as it is now, where everyone with Claude suddenly becomes a software engineer.
Software engineering is more than pushing code to main/master.
It's requirements. Acceptance criteria. Design. Documentation written for humans. Reviews. Operations. Maintenance. Understanding the product. Understanding the system you're changing.
Right now, I struggle with PRs being opened by people who don't fully understand the code they're changing, replying to review comments with Claude generated answers pasted back like a meat proxy...
What I see at work is that we're pushing code faster than ever, while losing the big picture of our product, or the architecture of our own network, even faster.
We're also generating documentation at an incredible pace. The problem is that the people writing it often don't understand it either.
Code has become cheap.
Engineering hasn't.