Post #3935682
2026-07-19 14:08 UTC
@lproven@social.vivaldi.net The assumption here is that companies care about architecture and technical debt. Most care about getting a product out the door and keeping it working well enough that customers keep using it. Technical debt cleanup, good architecture, lack of duplication, etc are all things to enable human developers to function effectively. LLMs don’t complain about bad code, they just keep chugging through it. The context window problem will be overcome by summarizing and delegating to subtasks. It’s still cheaper than paying us to fix it.
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@toerror@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-07-19 14:52
@shac@ioc.exchange @lproven@social.vivaldi.net My personal observation from before the current era was that companies ( well - product teams ) would block any reworking of codebases out of fear of creating more problems and not adding new functionality. This ultimately creates a situation where senior management see the opportunity to create a new team / product for reasons of internal politics using the degraded performance / bug ridden nature of the product as evidence of why this should happen.