Excellent post. People always defend agentic/LLM-driven development by saying, "Well it's good enough", or "It works most of the time."
That may be tolerable for some user-facing app. But what if we start normalizing failures in the libraries, the infrastructure, and the compilers? Everything descends into a mess of unreliability, and that slows EVERYTHING and EVERYONE down.
Banking/Finance is the one industry I've seen push back against this type of thinking. Transactions must be handled in a perfect and repeatable way, or the system is unusable as far as the company is concerned.
There's definitely still AI/LLM integration happening, but is kept out of specific areas of the business.
I think the failures matter in non-sensitive environments as well albeit with a different threshold.
If you randomly screw up customer orders (think of DoorDash or an online shop or Airbnb). They lose trust in you and you lose your business to the competition. Going happy go lucky and being irresponsible in the business can bankrupt most* businesses.
* well, of course except the criminal empires which are bailed out by our tax money.
adamddev1 · · focus · HN ↗
That may be tolerable for some user-facing app. But what if we start normalizing failures in the libraries, the infrastructure, and the compilers? Everything descends into a mess of unreliability, and that slows EVERYTHING and EVERYONE down.
Root_Denied · · focus · HN ↗
There's definitely still AI/LLM integration happening, but is kept out of specific areas of the business.
geraneum · · focus · HN ↗
If you randomly screw up customer orders (think of DoorDash or an online shop or Airbnb). They lose trust in you and you lose your business to the competition. Going happy go lucky and being irresponsible in the business can bankrupt most* businesses.
* well, of course except the criminal empires which are bailed out by our tax money.
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