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Agentic Coding is Burning Me Out | Sid's Blog (0xsid.com)
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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Those are all great habits.

But the time spent doing that is time not shipping code. Most companies don't give a flying fuck about quality, they just want to ship as much as possible to make as much money as possible.

[–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

When the cost to ship trash code trends toward zero, then there will not be value in shipping trash code. Companies will need to focus on software that is actually competitive (in a qualitative way) because otherwise their customers will just self-vend the slop code.

[–] tomalley8342@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Based on my time in the corporate world, the new meta will probably be about how well you can hide the slop in your SaaS until you have enough of their data in your servers to make migration impractical.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think you have something backwards. When the cost to ship trash code trends to zero, the profit trends to infinity.

[–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

The cheaper it is to produce slop code, the less the demand there will be to buy it. Companies will self-vend instead of buying the slop being sold. Your profit margins are someone else's inefficiency.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's hard to determine whether something is slop before you buy it.

[–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago

Not beating the association between AI and scams with this one.