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1. thesumofall · 1790608550 · focus · HN ↗

   I think the author underestimates how boring and simple 90% of enterprise software is. The part that isn’t powering aircraft and power plants. So much of it originates from one-nighters, badly managed subcontractors, and requirements that are of low quality to begin with (because they are written by people who have very different day jobs). And you know what? Most of that runs 24/7 without a glitch. LLMs just gives us more of that. And maybe it’s even better

   1. cautiouscat · 1790616020 · focus · HN ↗

      I’ve been working in enterprise for ten years and I wouldn’t call any of the services I’ve worked on simple.

      1. thesumofall · 1790620575 · focus · HN ↗

         There is probably a marvelous software core in many large enterprises but at least in my experience it’s surrounded by layers and layers of very basic stuff. Read from a database, write to a database (often not even with any logic dealing with parallel read/writes). Excel Macros. Basic forms to submit data. Scripts to print some stuff from a database. …

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