Others may remember it differently, but I feel like things started to change somewhere between 2009 to 2012? People were still hand-indenting code back then, and your personal style felt like something you had a bit of ownership of or was a creative outlet for you. I think we are in a much better place now where the editor + a central config file owns the whole thing, and I'd be surprised to see a modern codebase where a formatter's defaults weren't being used.
> this seems like a made up problem or something that predates my career
I can believe the latter, and I can assure you this was a Big Deal back in the day. There's a reason Go ships with gofmt, and gofmt was somewhat revolutionary for being a built-in "you gotta do it like this" back in the day.
> We were caching IP information at a prefix level, which was mostly fine, but for several categories I cared about, it was far too coarse. Yes, we can do “hosting IP” at the prefix level, but “VPN exit point” is often per-IP
What do you think this magical prompt will be, exactly, that perfectly represents what was almost certainly an iterative rather than spot process on the author's part?
> the article is based on a prompt, which i would much rather read
I would much rather read someone's carefully written and LLM-assissted article than shallow and lazy dismissals like this one. What, precisely, do you feel you've added to the conversation here?
“Nobody knows” = “the method sophisticated lenders are using to determine this is a commercial secret”
If you are the CFO of a credible AI company you can pick up the phone and get some advice exceptionally accurate numbers on what the market things the value is very quickly.
I wrote a very similar article called "The prompt is not the work", which also touches on honesty about creation, and disclaimers on where your contribution lies: https://sgnt.ai/p/prompt-is-not-the-work/
I think we have a couple of years of "being good at talking to the LLM about your field of expertise" being a useful human skill, until that too gets washed away