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  • InvertedRhodium · 6 hours ago

    Where’s the baseline? Most projects I’ve ever started since I was a teenager have been abandoned within months of release.

    • hotdog1492 · 5 hours ago

      Heck, most projects I've ever worked on professionally, with budgets in the millions, have been abandoned far earlier than any of the initial sponsors hoped.

      • Isamu · 5 hours ago

        Well if AI can accelerate the slopware -> abandonware lifecycle then maybe net gain? We can move on more quickly after setting fire to a zillion tokens.

        • saltcured · 2 hours ago

          Ideally the single-use slop should just go straight into the self-satisfied user's system and never appear in the public "release" arena.

          But we have to suffer through this awkward phase where people want to have it both ways. They don't want to run a successful collaborative development project, but the want the imagined accolades.

          It's hard to really comprehend. It's a bit like people wanting to have fame as musicians for successfully pressing the buttons on a jukebox?

      • lschueller · 5 hours ago

        I agree. This is nothing new. And I would even state, that this applies to every sort of idea. Not only coding projects. AI makes an idea life cycle only a bit faster in some cases.

        • ShinyLeftPad · 3 hours ago

          You were releasing projects teenage years? How many did you release?

          • InvertedRhodium · 1 hours ago

            I worked on Half-Life mods with friends I met in IRC in the late 90's - so about 13 onwards. We "released" stuff to forums all the time, though very few updates ever got released.

            Less interesting stuff like basic save game editors too.

        • seb1204 · 4 hours ago

          Isn't the benefit from LLM that anyone can create that little software that does scratch the particular needs the user has. Once scratched it's done its job. Rinse and repeat the next time. There is no longer the need to clean and maintain code for the next time. A bit like fast fashion! We are doomed.

          • stevenhubertron · 34 minutes ago

            Wait till you hear about about CMS migrations I did before AI existed.