Post #4480488

2026-08-09 16:05 UTC

@s1m0n4@ohai.social @lehtimaeki@snapp.social I think we should acknowledge the dirty secret in our industry. A lot (the majority?) of code is wasted effort. Why? Because we don't actually spend enough time understanding users. Shitty UIs, nonsensical workflows, mangled mental models. These are everywhere!! Who cares if the code is flawless when the product is defective? It's time to fix this and stepping away from the code is part of that. (Disclaimer - Juhani and I work together and have very similar thinking.)

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@botteaap@androiddev.social 2026-08-09 16:43

@jasperamorgan@mastodon.social @s1m0n4@ohai.social @lehtimaeki@snapp.social When the code is defective because you didn't look at it or understand it, how does that help users? It doesn't. And now it's harder to fix because the code that is produced is truly a black box and all you can do is roll the dice and hope the LLM will fix it. I can see a world where we generate a bunch of mediocre code and it keeps working, heck that's probably a lot of software already, but I still think you need to understand and reason about the code.

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