Hitting the High Notes (2005)
Current LLM-in-coding trends keep bringing this post up in my head.
I see a lot of the mentioned "King David fetish" in companies trying to cut salary costs by using more AI tools.
Like, the idea that you can make something worthwhile without strong skill, by just adding enough mediocrity to make up for it.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/07/25/hitting-the-high-notes/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
I always loved reading Joel's stuff, clear & well thought out. It was especially exciting when they were building Stack Overflow, but that's kinda got buried now. Things come & things go...