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Explaining to business people why building software is still hard

66 points · 59 comments · fagnerbrack

  1. miranaproarrow · · focus · HN ↗
    My manager who vibe coded our entire webapp in claude design. Has difficulty understanding why its still not production ready.

    My job is to wire to our backend data, and a lot of these wiring require me to be in there and actually think about the features. These take time, and I just haven't figure out a way to speed this process up with Claude.

    1. holoduke · · focus · HN ↗
      On the other hand. If his tool does the job why not. If you asked a 90s engineer how javascript triggers millions of cpu instructions for just a few code steps he would call you crazy.
      1. bigstrat2003 · · focus · HN ↗
        > If you asked a 90s engineer how javascript triggers millions of cpu instructions for just a few code steps he would call you crazy.

        I'm not a 90s engineer and that is crazy. The amount of inefficiency that people tolerate from JS and other web stuff is completely unreasonable in my view. It's also why software today is much worse than it was 20-30 years ago.

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