Post #2189084
2026-04-03 05:01 UTC
@jacob@social.jacobian.org the world in which agentic tools could have the level of success that you're imagining with trash-level code quality would seem to me to be the same world where anyone annoyed with a subscription-model app would simply download a 30-year-old abandonware replacement from archive dot org, because they'd be comfortable with long-term stasis. which seems unrealistic to me.
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@jacob@social.jacobian.org 2026-04-03 14:40
@glyph@mastodon.social Yeah, that’s one conclusion I’m coming to thanks to this discussion. I was aware of the slipperiness of “quality”, and was kinda doing that deliberately because exploring weather quality matters is (to me) more interesting than defining quality precisely. But what I hadn’t noticed was that “done” was just as slippery — and in order for quality (whatever definition) not to matter, there has to be no maintenance, and that requires “done” to actually be a thing.