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Software Is Not A Single-Player Game (www.davidpoll.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by codeinabox@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 20 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Before I read this: is just the title image generated with AI, or also the rest of the article?

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 13 points 2 weeks ago

That aesthetic made me vomit.

[–] codeinabox@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I agree that the AI generated image is trashy, however the article is a cautionary tale about the pitfalls of relying on agentic coding, instead of collaborating with other developers.

But there is always a ceiling on how far a single-player game can take you, even with agents. Software that lasts, software that grows, software that people can actually depend on – that is built by groups of people exercising judgment together over time. By teams developing shared taste, shared mental models, shared sense of what their product should be. None of that happens through individual prompting, no matter how clever the prompts.

[–] RaphaelSchmitz@feddit.org 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So. Is that an em dash

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago

Given their answer to "was the article AI generated?" was "the article is about..." we can safely assume it's slop.

[–] locuester@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

So is that a yes? AI slop?

[–] Solemarc@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe? There are 3 emdashes in the first 3 paragraphs, which is a suspiciously high number.