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The two worlds of programming: why developers who make the same observations about LLMs come to opposite conclusions (www.baldurbjarnason.com)
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/52842255

Have been working my way through this author's essays, thought this one was a unique observation.

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 9 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Those who believe we’ve been in an incrementally escalating software crisis since at least 2007.

Web development is now especially notorious for completely disregarding accessibility, user device capabilities, and regulations. Most of the ideas of user-centred design are alien to modern developers.

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[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Full context of the first quote:

Those who believe we’ve been in an incrementally escalating software crisis since at least 2007.

Our current software crisis – we’ve had a few – has been ramping up since the US gave up on regulation after the 2007 crash. Instead of reforming and regulating finance, the US decided to let the finance industry take over all of its industries, which hasn’t been great overall, but for software it’s meant that “quality” stopped mattering.

  • Well-funded startups capture market share with subsidised products.
  • Big tech is a cluster of oligopolies and monopolies.
  • Internal software projects are driven by their potential effects on stock prices (“UGC! No, Web 2.0! No, blockchain! No, AI!”).
  • Customer lock-in is a standard tactic.

There is little to no downside to poor software quality. The upside of doing the job well is limited compared to tactics like lock-in, dishonest subscription models, and monopolies

If his principal complaint is industry consolidation and consumer abuse, then the browser situation is not a great counterexample.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 1 points 4 hours ago

Damn I'm saving that image

[–] MirrorGiraffe@piefed.social 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Tbf an LLM does a lot of things poorly but enforcing accessibility standards to a higher degree that most websites should be easy for it.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

What makes you think that?

[–] MirrorGiraffe@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

Personal experience of using strict rules to tell it to stick certain guidelines + the state of accessibility on the web being quite subpar.