• A Sharky Anthro@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    I hope the slopicalypse does hit in 2027 because there is no way to escape technical debt, unless you build software with smart people carefully maintaining it as they add features. LLMs could never do that and will cause the worst tech disasters. I cannot wait to see the aftermath of all these corporations fucking around and finally finding out how stupid they really are!

    • SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev
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      It already happened to a project at my work. Nobody understands enough of the code base and/or can make sense of it to be able to add features. It is the buggiest fucking thing ever, making LLM debugging an endless excersise of finding more bugs. This also means that we can’t prompt an LLM effectively to make targeted changes. The only thing left is letting an agent fuck shit up worse by running it with a vague prompt. We don’t know what to do. It did cost a lot to make after counting man hours and traditional software development mentality hates throwing something completely away.