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I Don't Like LLMs

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cake-rusk · 1789659763 · focus · HN ↗
I don't like Martin Fowler. He is the archetype of the architect astronaut. The OG bullshit meister.
I like LLMs for stuff I don't care about. Programming is not one of them.
1. nnevatie · 1789660696 · focus · HN ↗
  Correct. The master BSer is afraid of being replaced by an even better BSer, so doesn’t like it.
2. dave_sid · 1789681332 · focus · HN ↗
  Didn’t he invent refactoring? Something that every developer in the world uses every day? Don’t think he’s a bullshitter.
  1. cake-rusk · 1789706770 · focus · HN ↗
    No he did not. For some reason people think he did.
    See following article where he talks about the inventors of refactoring: <a href="https://martinfowler.com/bliki/EtymologyOfRefactoring.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com" rel="nofollow">https://martinfowler.com/bliki/EtymologyOfRefactoring.html?u...
    dave_sid · 1789707185 · focus · HN ↗
    What do you mean some reason? He wrote the book Refactoring that caused everyone to start refactoring. That’s quite a big reason. He literally wrote the book on it.
    cake-rusk · 1790336558 · focus · HN ↗
    It would have been okay if he stopped there. I think success went to his head and he became the BSer-in-chief of the software industry after that. The Emperor has no clothes.

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