Post #2902711

2026-04-28 21:37 UTC

As an "I wonder" exercise... say that BlueSky wasn't vibe coded, but instead was done "the old fashioned way" with 20x as many people taking 10x as long to produce the same product. Over that 10x as long timeframe, would they have experienced less or more total downtime with traditionally coded software? Not theoretically perfect software, the actual stuff that "professionals" building social media sites write? Also, if they have staffed up with the same number of people as were traditionally required, can those people respond to and correct issues slower or faster than a traditional team? LLMs are powerful tools, which have evolved fairly dramatically in the area of software devleopment across the last 12 months. I suspect as people learn to use them properly, safely, appropriately, they are going to prove out to be quite useful. In the meantime, there will be mistakes made...

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@davidagain@lemmy.world 2026-04-28 22:44

There was an article a bit ago explaining that most AI companies are making a 95% loss. You know, spending 100, receiving 5 loss. All that debt is going to mean the price for AI is about 20 times lower than it needs to be just to break even. The software teams that came to rely on AI to save costs will soon enough find themselves on the hook for this mountain of debt. Enshitification is real. Enshitification is coming. AI will **not** stay cheap, convenient and free of advertising.

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@14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 2026-04-29 00:12

> Over that 10x as long timeframe, would they have experienced less or more total downtime with traditionally coded software? i have a homework for you: if you ask professional chef how to keep the cheese on pizza, are they going to tell you to use some glue? once you figure out an answer to that, you should be able to answer your original question.

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