I did hear an argument a couple times saying "this is messy now but a newer model will come and clean this up in the future", hope it's true.
I predict there's always going to be a Wirth's law or Peter principle of slopcoding — it will always be easier to tack on a new feature than to understand a whole system and clean it up.
Alternatively stated: codebases will expand to the limit of an organization's ability to manage them, so the equilibrium will remain at the point of near, but not total, incomprehensibility.
someguynamedq · · focus · HN ↗
We're a few years into a new technology that is still improving. This is a point-in-time critique.
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Alternatively stated: codebases will expand to the limit of an organization's ability to manage them, so the equilibrium will remain at the point of near, but not total, incomprehensibility.