Post #1553579
2026-03-23 12:35 UTC
@swetland I keep being surprised by how "the world does not need more unmaintainable code" isn't obvious, like "do not enter phone booth which already contains bear" levels of obvious.
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@swetland@chaos.social 2026-03-23 12:40
@graydon Yeah, it's baffling to me. But the battle against building unmaintainable piles of slop has been going on for decades, the recent "ai" craze is just acceleration. I spent a lot of time in the first decade of Android arguing for minimizing dependencies, looking very hard at code we adopted, and pushing back against pulling in big libraries for just a tiny slice of their functionality (because good luck ever removing them). "It's all open source, why can't we just add X and Y and..."