Chris Pitts@thirstybear@agilodon.social
@RonJeffries@mastodon.social @GeePawHill@mastodon.social “Mediocre works” is, I suspect, an element of the truism “Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets”.
And if the results the system gets through mediocrity are good enough…boom 💥
Which is precisely the reason LLMs might just succeed in killling off software development-they might be “good enough” mediocre.
Which I find depressing as hell having strived to raise the bar and make a difference my entire career.
Poligofsky 🇨🇦
@8r3n7@mstdn.ca
@thirstybear@agilodon.social
If I may…
“Excellent” and “mediocre” are subjective and relative. They are aesthetic judgements, based on some set of preferred criteria. Otherwise, not disagreeing.
The reason that “mediocre” software—bloated, buggy, insecure—succeeds is that the competitive market landscape is characterized by winner-take-all. Upstarts get strangled in their cribs, if they are born at all.
The software ecosystem is not healthy. It has similarities to industrial agriculture.
@RonJeffries@mastodon.social @GeePawHill@mastodon.social