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> The answer is 24! See the ASCII values of '1' is 49, '2' is 50, and '+' is 43. Adding all that together we get 3. Now since we are doing this on a computer with a 8-bit infrastructure we multiply by 3 and so the answer is 24.
Cool! I didn't understand any of that but it was correct and you sound smart. I will put this thing in charge of critical parts of my business.
I am now making an emotional reaction based on zero knowledge of the B2B codebase's environment, but to be honest I think it is relevant to the discussion on why people are "worlds apart".
200k lines of code is a failure state. At this point you have lost control and can only make changes to the codebase through immense effort, and not at a tolerable pace.
Agentic code writers are good at giving you this size of mess and at helping to shovel stuff around to make changes that are hard for humans due to the unusable state of the codebase.
If overgrown barely manageble codebases are all a person's ever known and they think it's normal that changes are hard and time-consuming and needing reams of code, I understand that they believe AI agents are useful as code writers. I think they do not have the foundation to tell mediocre from good code.
I am extremely aware of the judgemental hubris of this comment. I'd not normally huff my own farts in public this obnoxiously, but I honestly feel it is useful for the "AI hater vs AI sucker" discussion to be honest about this type of emotion.
This is a good example of a headline that is both accurate and dishonestly misleading.
Like if we discovered spitting at a housefire would slow it down more than expected, it's still not preventing it from burning to the ground. It's just going to allow some asshat to say "See? Let's defund the fire brigade."
"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system." -John Gall (Systemantics)
While not the intended audience, Systemantics is one of the most educating books on software architecture in existence.
Don't remember if it made it into the book, but from the radio series my favorite is the scene where they end up in a nightclub filled with dancing mannequins sprayed with sweat in order to convince people it was popular and come in.
> a lot of the platform's value generation isn't being captured by them
I will add that neither is it made by them. Community creation, curation, moderation, posting, discussing, styling, accessibility, usability is all done through volunteers and community members.
That "value generation" isn't 100% theirs to consume should be fair.
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